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Semi-Centennial Anniversary 

OF THE 

SOUTH 



Congregational Society 

(WLnituviun), 

IN LOWELL, 
3femii, Sept. 26, !8?9 t 



LOWELL, MASS.: 
VOX POPULI PRESS: HUSE, GOODWIN & CO., 130 CENTRAL ST. 

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The first meeting to consider the expediency of holding 
Unitarian services in Lowell was held at the house of Mr. Thomas 
Ordway, afterwards one of the first deacons of the church, Aug. 
30, 1829. The Society was formally organized Sept. 26, 1829. As 
the Fiftieth Anniversary of this latter event drew near, it was 
deemed advisable by the parishioners to celebrate the event with 
fitting observances. Accordingly, at their annual meeting, April 
21, 1879, it was voted, "That the organization of the First 
Unitarian Society of Lowell be appropriately commemorated on 
the Fiftieth Anniversary in September next; and that the following 
named persons constitute an Executive Committee to act with the 
Pastor to arrange for a commemorative observance of the 
organization of this Society, on the Fiftieth Anniversary, viz. 
Messrs. Daniel S. Richardson, Hapgood Wright, John F. Kimball, 
Wm, P. Brazer, G. A. Gerry, I. F. Scripture, Mrs. P. Anderson, 
and Mrs. G. F. Richardson." The committee were empowered to 
make all arrangements, and to appoint such committees as they 
deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of the foregoing 
vote. 

It was decided to hold an historical, memorial, service, in the 
church, at 2 p. m., Friday, Sept. 26, 1879, to be followed by a 
social reunion of present and past parishioners and friends, from 
4 to 6 p. m., in the vestry, and to arrange for a dinner, at Jackson 
Hall, from 6 to 9.30 p. m. 

The day was pleasant, and a large number of persons were 
present at all the exercises. Of the seven pastors, one is deceased; 
the others were all present, excepting the first, Rev. Wm. Barry, 
who was too feeble to make the effort. Many of the past 
parishioners, who were the most widely known and distinguished, 
are not now living. A long roll of Worthy men and wdmen have 



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made this church their religious home, at different times. A large 
number have passed to their spiritual home. Of those still living, 
a large proportion were with us the day of the celebration. It was 
an event long to be remembered. The reunion, in the vestry, of 
friends of former days, was as happy as it was sad : happy, in the 
fact that it brought together, once more, many dear and pleasant 
acquaintances ; sad, in that so many could be with us only in the 
spirit. That social hour passed only too quickly. The vestry was 
crowded, and the uninterrupted hum of voices was a sure indication 
of the enjoyment which all felt. 

The dinner was fully attended, every available seat being taken. 
The greatest interest was manifested in all the services of the day, 
and a strong desire was evinced that the proceedings be published. 
To meet that desire, the following pages, containing the exercises 
in the church, and the substance of the remarks made at the dinner, 
have been published. 

Complying with the evidently very unanimous wish of the so- 
ciety, the committee have likewise included the interesting sermon 
of Dr. Miles, delivered on the Sunday following the celebration. 

At the suggestion of many parishioners, the lists of deaths, 
marriages, baptisms, and admissions to the church have been 
published. The multiplication of these valuable records will be 
of great value should the church records ever be lost or destroyed. 

The Historical Address is intended to be a careful narration of 
facts, without any attempt at rhetorical style. It was prepared for 
historical purposes, and to smooth the way for any who may in 
future desire to know or write of the history of this Society. 



1. Organ Prelude. Offertoirc in E6 Batiste. 

Mr. George B. Allen. 

2. Psalm CXXVII. 

3. Carmixa Alterna, for Day 26, P. M. Service, in 0. B. 

Brown and Rev. E. E. Hale's " Carmina Alterna." 

4. Address of Welcome . . . Hon. Daniel S. Bichardson. 

5. Choir Voluntary. " I will be glad " .... Southard. 

MRS. Geo. B. Allen ........ Soprano. 

Miss Jennie F. Woodward Alto. 

Chas. H. Sargent (of Lawrence) '. Tenor. 

Franklin Nickerson, M. D. . . . . Bass. 

6. Reading of the Scriptures. (Ps. lxv, 1, 2, 4, 5, 11; Ps. 

xxiii, entire; Eph. iv, 4-7, 11-13; Eph. iii, 20, 21.) 

Bev. F. Hinckley, Fourth Bastor. 

7. Choir Voluntary. " Hear ns, 0 Father " B. Owen. 

8. Prayer Bev. Henry Blanchard, Sixth Bastor. 

9. Choir Response. " Trisagion and Sanctus " . . . Havens. 

10. Historical Sermon .... Bev. J. L. Seward, Bastor. 

11. Choir Voluntary. " 0 God, the Protector " . . . Buck. 

12. Address. "The Founders of this Society, and the Out- 

come of their Work" . Bev. H. A. Miles, D. D., Second Bastor. 

13. Choir Voluntary. " Praise God in His Holiness " . . Tours. 

14. Closing Prayer Bev. J. L. Seward, Bastor. 

15. Hymn . . . Hymn 472, A. U. A. Hymn and Tune Book, 1st eel. 

16. Doxology. "From all that dwell below the skies." 

17. Benediction. 

18. Organ Postlude. "Marche Triomphale" . . . Lemmens. 



by hon. daniel s. richardson. 

My Fellow-Parishioners of the South Congregational Uni- 
taeian Society of Lowell, and our Guests and Friends: 

We of this Society have stepped to-clay from the first into the 
second half-century of our parochial existence, and this large as- 
sembly of our parishioners and friends has been gathered here to 
commemorate the event. The occasion will be a memorable one; 
and such another, with like advantages for arresting from the de- 
structive flight of time, and recording the history of our origin and 
progress, will never occur again. 

Our career for fifty years is closed, and we can now only describe 
that career from memory, tradition, and the written records. We 
meet to review those records, and with each others' aid to unroll 
and put in substantial form those memories and traditions. Happily 
for us, they extend back with living freshness, at least in the minds 
of many here present, to the day of our parochial birth. AYe are 
fortunate in having with us at this pleasant gathering, among our 
present parishioners, and among our invited guests, men and women 
who formed part of the little earnest band which, with fitting cere- 
monies and solemnities, established this prosperous society, even 
while our municipal corporation, embracing now more than fifty 
thousand inhabitants, was in its infancy, and ranked only as a town 
of moderate size and growth. 

Unusual as it may be, in an organization of this kind, after such 
a lapse of time, all the pastors who have been settled over our 
society, except one, are living, and all those survivors have been in- 
vited to join us as our guests. And with them we have invited to 
be here many of our parishioners of former years, and other friends 
of our society. It is gratifying to us that our invitations have 
been so generally accepted. This large assembly testifies that our 



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parishioners intend to enjoy the ceremonies and festivities of this 
anniversary, and that our guests are in sympathy with them. 

And amidst our enjoyments and kindly recollections we shall 
not forget our deceased pastor, whose early death was so much 
lamented. And we shall not forget to honor the memory of the 
throng of our former associates, who have passed away. Everyone 
present will look about this familiar church, from pew to pew, and 
go back from year to year, and call to mind, with vivid and im- 
pressive memories, the long list of those who were fellow-workers, 
in former years, in promoting the interests and usefulness of this 
parish, and have finished their work on earth and passed on to 
another sphere of duty. They are all present with us in our memo- 
ries, and it is a refreshing belief, which to some extent and in 
some manner will impress itself upon us, that they are with us in 
spirit, though material forms may be nothing to them here or there. 

In its various aspects, this is a grand day for our parish. Let it 
be consecrated with religious ceremonies; let it be celebrated with 
music and song and speech and festivities. Another half-century, 
and no one will be present who can look back to our parochial 
beginning. This church-building, with its attractions, real conven- 
iences, endearments, architectural peculiarities and beauties, situated 
in the midst of the busy marts of men, may then still resound with 
the echoes of this day, but it is more than probable that our suc- 
cessors will in the future make such material progress that this 
structure will then be of the past, and that our advancing faith will 
then be taught in a building which will also exhibit architectural 
progress and improvements in construction and location. 

Under all the circumstances, never in so many particulars to occur 
together again, why should we not celebrate this day as one of extra- 
ordinary interest? Why should we not listen with delight to the 
reminiscences of the past over the whole period of our associated 
existence, which will be presented by living witnesses? 

In this semi-centennial celebration of our birthday, while we look 
back upon the past, let us not forget to cast hopeful glances into 
the future. May the prosperity and usefulness of the parish be 
continued through all time, and side by side Avith the other parishes 
of all denominations around us, few established before ours, and 
many since, may ours do its great work of worship and instruction 
and charity, in sympathy with like work on their part. May we, 
and our successors, continue to be tolerant of the beliefs of others 
and faithful to our own. In this way the world, with all the great 



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trials of its probationary life, is wide and broad enough to receive 
and profit by all the good the sincerest person can do, whatever 
his creed or belief. Religious beliefs are largely of faith and hope. 
The church which warrants its faith to be the only one that can 
save mankind, maybe sincere, pious, and philanthropic; but in these 
days of intelligent inquiry among so many societies of different 
creeds and beliefs, established and adopted by sincere men, the 
responsibility for such a warranty will be often questioned, and the 
warranty itself of doubtful value. 

But my work to-day in the ceremonial part of this celebration 
is short, though important, and I must hasten to its close. I am, at 
the outset, to extend to our guests and visitors a kindly greeting. 

In behalf of our parish, therefore, I am happy thus publicly, at 
the beginning, to convey our thanks to all who have gratified us 
with their presence, and who have come to hear and be heard of 
the past, and to join with us in bright hopes, of the future. 

Two words more, and I shall have discharged my part of the 
opening ceremonies of the day, and those words I now utter with 
emphatic sincerity — Welcome, all! 



BY REV. HENRY BLAXCHARD. 

Our Father who art in Heaven — With reverence and love, with 
gratitude and trust, in this hallowed hour, we lift our prayer to 
Thee. We feel how solemn is the passage of fifty years. We 
remember how great is the company of those who once were on 
earth and entered these courts of praise, and who now have 
ascended to the world unseen. We think, in this hour, that fifty 
years hence, we who now are here, shall have joined the 
multitude above. 

O God ! we revere Thee as the Father of those we have known 
and loved and honored; as the Father of all who are gathered here 
in solemn commemoration of the founding of this church ; we 
revere Thee as Lord of Heaven and Earth — as the One who didst 
send forth thy servants of old — the patriarchs and prophets — as 
the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — as the 
God of Nations — as the Judge of Mankind! Holy and reverend 
is Thy name! Justice and judgment are the habitation of Thy 
throne! Might, majesty, dominion, belong unto Thee! 

Father, we love Thee while we revere. Thou hast been full of 
love to us and ours, and because Thou first loved us, we love Thee 
with all our souls. Graciously hast Thou led us on, and graciously 
hast Thou spoken Thy words of comfort and inspiration, and while 
we bow before Thee, we rise in spirit towards Thee in filial, hearty, 
eternal love. 

With grateful hearts, ' therefore, we bring our thanks to-day. 
For the noble men and women who fifty years ago established this 
church, we thank Thee now. For their fidelity, perseverance, 
courage, hope, we thank Thee. For their constancy in helping 
the poor and aiding all high causes, we bring Thee hearty thanks. 
For the pastors and for the officers of this church, we praise Thee. 



PEAYER. 



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They have striven to be Thy servants. Through service long or 
brief, they have sought to know Thy will and to j3roclaim it to their 
brethren. Studious of the words of law-giver and psalmist, of 
prophets and apostles — above all, of the great Master of souls; 
zealous to study the movement of Thy Spirit in all the history of 
the world; believing mightily in the power of the church to bless 
the world by prayer and preaching ; longing for union among men ; 
rejoicing to proclaim Thee as the One God and Father of men 
who is above all, and through all, and in all, and to make known 
the chief Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 
they have striven to be co-workers with Thee and helpers to men. 
And now in serenest trust in Thy wisdom, power, goodness, we 
pray Thee to guide us in this hour and in the future days. O / 
sanctify this hoar! So long as we shall live on earth, nay, through 
all time to come, may its impressiveness be felt. May its memories 
soothe and not sadden! May its hopes inspire to good cheer! 

Bless our hymns and prayer, our speech and thoughts and re- 
solves ! And as from this memorial hour, we look forward to that 
time when a century shall be complete and again solemn memo- 
rial service shall be held, we pray — O! Father, we pray with 
all our souls' power — for Thy blessing to be on this dear church ! 
Bless our brother, its honored pastor. We thank Thee for all the 
earnest service of his pastorate, and pray for abundant harvest from 
prayer and sermon, from speech in homes, from service above the 
dead. Sanctify all his powers, and give him might to proclaim the 
glorious gospel given by Thee to Jesus Christ our Lord! Bless the 
officers and members, this company of noble men and women. 
Grant to them fully to feel the greatness of their ministry in 
maintaining a church of God! In their homes may peace prevail, 
and prosperity abound. In joy, may thought of Thee hallow all 
they do. In sorrow, may they know Thee as the God of comfort. 
In intercourse with friends, in discharge of daily duties, in 
allegiance to demands of community, commonwealth, and country, 
ennble them to become true disciples of Christ, worthy sons and 
daughters of Thee, the living and loving God. 

Bless the Sunday school! May teachers and taught revere Thee 
as the God of righteousness, and love and serve Thee as disciples of 
Him who loved children. 

Bless these pastors who are present, and him who is absent, and 
him who is in heaven. Bless them as Thy ministers who have loved 
this people deeply, and feeling ever that they are still a part of this 



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church, may they serve Thee with power wherever Thou callest 
them to be Thy servants. 

For all the "brotherhood of the churches we pray to-clay ! We 
rejoice in those great leaders who have made that brotherhood 
honored and useful among men. May their noble words become 
household treasures in all our homes and in all the world. May 
their example inspire us to toil for God and man — to strive for 
Freedom, Knowledge, and Religion. 

Bless to-day the Church Universal ! Whoever names the name 
of Christ as Teacher and Master, as Lord and Saviour, we rejoice 
to recognize as our Christian Brother, member with .us of that 
great Church. Make strong its preachers ! Make pure and simple, 
and generous and righteous, all its jDeople ! Increase the unity of the 
spirit in the bond of peace ! Make acquaintance with the Scriptures 
to be profound ! Make knowledge of the "mind of Christ" to be 
enlarged, and of eternal power to ennoble man, and purify, 
strengthen, and inspire the Church ! Into this glorious work, let 
this church of fifty years' service, enter with renewed power. 
Revering Thee, honoring all men, loving the brotherhood, giving 
homage to all who are in authority, training reason, exalting the 
spirit of communion with Thee — Great Spirit of the universe — 
grant, O! God, that in all the fifty years to come, this beloved 
church may be Thy minister to men. 

And now unto Thee, the King eternal, immortal, invisible, our 
Father and our God, will we give the praise forever. Amen ! 



BY REV. J. L. SEWARD. 

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Text: Ps. Ixxviii, 2. 3, 6. "I will utter dark savings of old; which we 
hare heard and known, and our fathers have told us. . . . That the 
generation to come misht know them." 

• 

The Jews were particular to preserve their records and gene- 
alogies. They handed down, from one generation to another, 
accounts of the heroic deeds of ancestors, that posterity, stimulated 
by such recitals, might emulate the virtues of their forefathers. 

The busy, active life of this (comparatively) new country of ours 
has allowed, even to students and scholars, too little time to write 
out carefully the annals of our own past history. Whoever has 
undertaken to write the history of a religious society, much more the 
history of a town or a state, has soon discovered the paucity of 
material with which he has to work. 

Secretaries, clerks, clergymen, and others whose duty it is to keep 
records, too often undervalue the importance of preserving full and 
reliable statistics. Our own church records were once lost ; and had 
it not been for the painstaking care of one of my predecessors, in 
finding the book, and revising the records, I should have been unable 
to state many facts, to-day. 

The full history of a church can never be written. We have no 
standard by which we can measure the exact value of moral and 
intellectual forces. We can tell of some who have attended our 
Sunday school, we can name many of the good men and women 
who have instructed them, but who can tell how much of their 
well-being in later years depended on their Sunday-school training; 
how much more easily they resisted temptation ; how much more 
elevated were their views of God, of the teachings of Jesus, of 
their duties to their fellow-men? Who can tell what difference 
there might have been in their lives had their younger years been 



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passed without the benefit of Sunday-school instruction ? Who can 
tell how many souls have been conscience-smitten, and have become 
repentant, at the preaching of the Gospel of Christ in this house ? 
We know in part who have worshipped here; we know most of 
the children who have been taught in our Sunday school ; we know 
the pastors who have preached here; these physical circumstances 
we can in part recount; but the spiritual work cannot be wholly 
made known or written out. 

This religious society, whose semi-centennial we celebrate to-day, 
was organized in 1829. Chronologically, fifty years are but a 
small part of the world's history ; it carries us back only to the time 
of William the Fourth in England, to Charles the Tenth in 
France, and to the year of the inauguration of President Jackson; 
but, as regards the world's intellectual progress, these fifty years 
cover the most important period of its history. In the year 1829, 
no message could be sent by telegraph. In the directory for 1833, 
the people of Lowell are congratulated on having communication 
with Boston by means of the Middlesex Canal. This was some 
years before the Boston & Lowell Railroad was built. It was the year 
that Colt's revolver was invented ; two years before McCormick's 
reaper; ten years before the daguerreotype; seventeen years before 
the use of ether as an anaesthetic; eighteen years before the 
sewing-machine, etc., not to speak of all the long catalogue of 
useful inventions. 

The mention of President Jackson reminds us also, that the 
formation of our society, which was shortly before his well-remem- 
bered visit to Lowell, was long before the tide of foreign immi- 
gration set in. That long line of factory-girls which President 
Jackson passed in review, who were dressed in white, and were 
decorated with flowers, and wore sashes representing their various 
corporations, were bright, intelligent young women, coming from 
good New England homes, many of them respectably educated, 
and capable of conducting a very creditable literary magazine. 

Not alone in the increase of population, in the substitution of fine 
buildings for plainer structures, in the number and value of our 
public institutions, but even in the character of our working-people, 
in the personnel of those who inhabit our city and walk our streets, 
the Lowell of to-day is very different from the Lowell of a half- 
century ago. 

Aug. 30, 1829, the first meeting to consider the expediency of 
forming a society, was held at the house of Thomas Ordway. 



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Just fifty years ago to-day, in a room in the old stone tavern on 
Pawtucket Street, the same building which was the residence of 
the late Dr. J. C. Ayer, our society was organized, Sept. 26, 1829. 
There were present at that meeting, John Avery, Ithamar A. Beard, 
Abram HuHe, John P. Robinson, Abner Ball, Samuel A. Coburn, 
Edward Callender, Seth Ames, and John A. Knowles, with others 
whose names cannot be recalled. 

Of all who were present at that meeting, only two, Judge Ames 
and Hon. John A. Knowles, are known to be living. The Hon. 
Seth Ames has removed from Lowell, and has an honorable 
professional reputation. Hon. John A. Knowles has honored his 
profession for fifty years in this place, has held offices of trust and 
distinction, and has always remained loyal to the best interests of 
this church and denomination. Among the founders of this society 
there are many whose names must not be passed over in silence. 
Prominent among them was Dr. Elisha Bartlett, an honor to tins 
city and to his profession. He was born in Smithfield, R. I., Oct. 
6, 1804. His parents were Quakers. They were unable to give 
their son a collegiate training, but his own untiring energy, and 
close application to study, enabled him to obtain as fine a classical 
education as any American university could have given to him. He 
graduated at the Medical School of Brown University, and after- 
wards studied in Paris. On his return from Europe, he took up his 
residence in Lowell; and when, in 1836, the town became a city, he 
became its first mayor. He afterwards became a professor at 
Transylvania University in Kentucky. While still comparatively 
young, he was compelled by illness to leave his profession and 
return to his native town, where he died July 19, 1855. His 
character is best described in the funeral oration by Bishop Clark, 
who said : " Some twenty-five years ago I used to meet a young man 
in the town of Lowell, whose presence carried sunshine wherever 
he went, whose tenderness and skill relieved the darkness of many 
a chamber of sickness, and whom all the community were fast 
learning to love and honor. Life lay before him, full of promise ; 
the delicate temper of his soul fitting him to the most exquisite 
enjoyment of all the pure delights of nature, and his cheerful 
temperament giving a genial and generous glow to the refined 
circles of which he was one of the chief est ornaments. He was a 
man of true and earnest thought; he grappled with the mysteries of 
science, and she yielded up to him her choicest treasures; he 
walked with observant eye in the fields of literature, and gathered 



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its choicest fruits ; he tuned his harp to song, and melody vibrated 
from the golden cords. The enterprising town to which he gave 
the freshness of his life, as soon as it rose to the dignity of a city, 
made him her chief magistrate, and bestowed upon him all the civil 
honors that were in her keeping. He soon became widely known, 
not only as a skilful and learned physician, but also as an accurate 
and eloquent lecturer, and as a valuable contributor to the journals 
of medical science." 

Another prominent name among our early men was that of Dr. 
John C. Dalton. In speaking of Dr. Dalton, I shall quote freely 
from the excellent memoir prepared by Dr. John O. Green, of this 
city. Dr. Dalton was born in Boston, May 31, 1795. After 
leaving the Boston schools, he entered Harvard College, and 
graduated in 1814, in the same class with Pres. James Walker, 
Prescott the historian, Rev. Dr. Greenwood, and Pliny Merrick. 
In his senior year, he won the Bowdoin prize.- He took his 
medical degree, having previously studied in other places, from 
the Harvard Medical School, in 1818; Dr. Samuel L. Dana taking 
his at the same time. 

In 1818, Dr. Dalton, then only twenty-three years of age, settled 
in Chelmsford. His success was remarkable from the first. Dr. 
Green has preserved one remarkable anecdote respecting him. 
An old gentleman, seventy-eight years of age, a hundred miles 
from home, upset his two-horse wagon in Chelmsford, and fell on 
his hip and could not get up. He was carried into a house and 
visited by Dr. Dalton, who pronounced the case to be one of fracture 
of the neck of the thigh bone, and he proceeded to apply a 
modification of Dessault's long splint. The patient soon became 
restive, and insisted on being carried home. The doctor protested, 
but all in vain. He had a large box made, which could hold his 
bed, together with himself and the splint; and in this he was 
carried home, riding forty miles the last day. A surgeon from the 
Dartmouth Medical School was summoned, who decided that the 
bone was not fractured, and he had the patient got up daily. In 
a subsequent lecture, he said that surgeons should be very 
cautious about giving hasty opinions. Dr. Dalton wrote to the 
professor, saying that, on his first visit to the patient, he found 
the limb everted, and shortened more than an inch, and gave other 
evidence that the bone was fractured. About two years after, the 
patient died. Dr. Dalton requested an autopsy, and it was granted, 
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every mark of fracture, and constitutes now a most interesting 
specimen of that peculiar accident. Dr. Dalton immediately wrote 
to the professor, stating the result, and closed with saying that "it 
teas very important in such cases to avoid a hasty diagnosis." 

Dr. Dalton remained thirteen years in Chelmsford, and came to 
Lowell to live in 1831. "How easy," says Dr. Green, "for his 
friends to recall his ever-welcome presence! On his expanded 
forehead no one could fail to trace the impress of a large and calm 
intelligence. In his beaming smile, none could help feeling the 
warmth of a heart which was the seat of all generous and kindly 
affections ; while his closed mouth and rigid muscle around it gave 
equal evidence of his firm purpose and indomitable energy of will. 
As he came here no stranger, with singular qualities of mind and 
heart, with an ample experience and training, in the prime of life 
and vigor, he at once entered upon, and constantly retained, a large 
and lucrative practice, and among the best and most discriminating 
portion of our population. Besides his professional traits, which 
made him so useful to all, his moral character was one of great 
strength and purity. He had an inbred sense of honor, an entire 
removal from all meanness. He had a courteous, dignified bearing, 
a disposition naturally quick, but by self-culture subdued to an. 
almost unvarying evenness. As a citizen, we owe him much. He 
was always ready to contribute of time or money to any enterprise 
undertaken to benefit our rising city." 

This religious society is indebted to Dr. Dalton for a handsome 
gift. In a letter to Deacon Knowles, dated April 21, 1860, he says : 
"Wishing to leave some slight token of my continued interest in 
the religious society with which, during my long residence in 
Lowell, I have been so pleasantly connected, I put into your hands 
a few days ago a power of attorney, authorizing you to transfer the 
certificate of two shares in the Railroad Bank, now standing in my 
name, which you will find in the keeping of the cashier, to the 
South Congregational Society. In answer to the inquiry contained 
in your letter of the 17th inst., as to the disposition of the dividend 
in said shares, I would have one half expended in the purchase, 
annually, of some engraving of permanent value in illustration 
of Scripture history or geography, for the use of the Sunday 
school ; the other half to be put in the hands of the Minister-at- 
large, for the purchase of poultry as a Thanksgiving dinner for a 
few of the most deserving poor, at his discretion." 

As a result of this handsome gift, several fine engravings, of 



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much value, grace the walls of our beautful vestry; and many a 
poor person has been enabled to enjoy a good Thanksgiving dinner.* 
Many charities were remembered by Dr. Dalton, and the last words 
spoken around his grave were, " Pie was the friend of the poor." 
In 1859, he removed to Boston, where he lived five years. He 
was a Christian man, a devoted member of the church, one who 
valued highly his religious faith, which was always a comfort and 
a joy to him. "His last hours," says Dr. Green, "were hours of 
sweet peace. His last words were brave words of Christian 
counsel to his children and near friends." He died in Boston, 
Jan. 9, 1864, aged 68. "His nature, bis culture, his earlier and 
maturer fruits, combined to make his life a blessing to those who 
partook of his gifts or dwelt within his shadow." 

Still another eminent physician, Dr. Samuel L. Danarf has 
been a member of this society. He graduated at Harvard College 
in 1813, and at the Harvard Medical School in 1818. He received 
the degree of Doctor of Laws, in 1847, from Amherst College, and 
was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
He served in the war of 1812. He began his medical profession 
in Gloucester in 1818, and in 1819 he began to practise in Waltham. 
He founded the Newton Chemical Company, of which he was the 
chemist. He removed to Lowell in 1834, as chemist to the Mer- 
rimack Manufacturing Company. He published several works of 
great scientific interest. He was a learned chemist, geologist, and 
mineralogist. He gave many valuable scientific books to both Har- 
vard and Amherst Colleges. He died March 11, 1868, after a brief 
illness, occasioned by a fall on some ice at his door-step. One who 
knew him said, " In his death we must conclude that a great and good 
man has left us, whose highly scientific labors were constant for the 
benefit of others, but whose modesty and sphere of action precluded 
deserved acknowledgment and praise." The Dana family is an old 
and honored family. Richard Dana, who settled in Cambridge in 
1640, was the ancestor of Dr. Dana, and of the Hon. Richard H. 
Dana, the poet, now deceased. Dr. Dana married Miss Augusta 
Willard, the last surviving daughter of the late ex-President 
Willard, of Harvard University. 



* Dr. Dalton subsequently added largely to his gift to the Ministry-at-large, 
and after his death, his family added still more to the fund. 

t Tor the chief facts in the life of Dr. Dana, I am indebted to a memoir 
by Dr. John 0. Green, in the "Contributions of the Old Residents' Histor- 
ical Association." 



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Another honored name on our early records is that of Hon. 
Joseph Locke. He was born in Ashby, April 8, 1772. He spent 
his childhood in that town. He graduated at Dartmouth College 
in 1797. He studied law in Groton with Timothy Bigelow, Esq. 
He then settled in Billerica. He was sent as a representative to 
the General Court several times, was once a councillor, and in 1820 
was a member of the convention for revising the Constitution. In 
1833 he removed to Lowell. For fourteen years he was the judge 
of the Police Court in this city. He died Nov. 3 0, 1853. One, in 
writing about him, says, "The treasures of an unfailing memory, 
the playfulness of a genial humor, the grace of courteous and 
kindly manners, made him well remembered by all who ever knew 
him. His learning was not confined to the department of law. 
Theology was always a favorite subject of thought. For many 
years an officer of the church, he loved the churches of our faith. 
The religion which he cherished through a long life was his strength 
and support to the very last. His sun went down amid the serenity 
and glory which give so sure a promise of its rising again in renewed 
splendor and strength." # 

Judge Thomas Hophinson was another honored parishioner. A 
contemporary says of him, "He was an able man. It is doubtful if 
we ever had his superior here as a lawyer. He was in the State 
Senate in 1846. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 
and was also president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad." He 
married a daughter of the Hon. John Prentiss, of Keene, N. H., 
editor of the " New Hampshire Sentinel," and who lived to see 
the day when he was the oldest living journalist in the country. 

Hon. Luther Lavirence, whose brothers Abbott, Amos, William, 
and Samuel were well known in Massachusetts, also attended this 
church. He was born in Groton, Sept. 28, 1778. He graduated 
at Harvard University in 1801. He read law with Hon. Timothy 



* The following anecdote respecting Judge Locke, which I have heard 
from an esteemed parishioner, is worthy of preservation. On an election 
day, after having been elected to the General Court, he rose in town- 
meeting, at Billerica, and said, "Gentlemen, you have seen fit to honor me 
again with a seat in the Legislature. I shall not follow the usual custom 
of treating my constituents with intoxicating drink, though I thank you for 
the office, but shall use a like sum of money, instead, to buy books for the 
poor children in our public schools." A most worthy precedent. Would 
it were followed by our present politicians ! He always refused to vote 
for himself, saying that it was wrong to be candidate and constituent at the 
same time. 



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Bigelow, of Boston, whose sister he married. He was several 
times a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and in 1S22 
speaker of the House. He came to Lowell in 1831. For more 
than seven years, he was president of the Railroad Bank. He was 
twice elected mayor of the city, but had hardly begun his second 
term when his career was suddenly and awfully terminated, April 
16, 1839, for, while walking through a building connected with the 
Middlesex Mills, with friends, upon that clay, while, for an instant, 
off his guard, he suddenly fell into the wheel-pit, falling seventeen 
feet, and fracturing his skull, which struck upon the cast-iron wheel, 
death almost instantly ensuing. In a paper of the time, we read : 
"His bright example as a man, a magistrate, and a Christian, will, 
it is believed, long exert a salutary influence upon the community. 
How he was loved by those who knew him best, may be inferred 
from the following incident. On the arrival of the mournful train 
on Groton Common, it was met by a large concourse of the peo]Dle 
of that beautiful village, of all ages and sexes, who thence escorted 
the remains to their final resting-place, in silence and in tears." 

Hon. John M. Wilson, afterwards Chief-Justice of the State of 
Illinois, was another of the founders and valuable men of the early 
days of the history of the parish. He was a prominent lawyer, 
here and in the West. 

Another name well remembered is that of John Clark. An old 
parishioner has said to me, "You cannot say too much good of 
him." He was a man of the highest character, and Avas especially 
interested in temperance. He was the agent of the Merrimack 
Manufacturing Company for several years. He was once president 
of the common council. John Avery, also, agent of the Hamilton 
Manufacturing Company, was a parishioner. A friend writes, "He 
had a warm interest in the society. He had a great deal of keen, 
quiet wit, but was very retiring and modest." Mr. Pelham IF. 
Warren, another early member of this society, is represented "as 
a man of ability and integrity, a man of modest, quiet, disposition." 
He had been clerk of the House of Representatives before coming 
to Lowell. He was the first cashier of the Railroad Bank, and 
afterwards its president. 

Samuel Batchelder, Esq., a prominent manufacturer, and agent 
of the Hamilton Mills, attended this church for a time. In his 
letter to the committee of the Lowell Semi-Centennial, he writes, 
"The first establishment of a savings-bank may deserve some 
note. After one of the Hamilton Mills was in operation, I found 
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by having in their boarding-houses no safe place to keep it, that I 
allowed them to deposit it with the Company on interest, and 
opened a set of books for the purpose, on the plan of a savings- 
bank. After a time, Mr. Nathan Appleton suggested that it might 
be doubtful whether our charter would authorize this ; I accordingly 
prepared a petition to the legislature, for the incorporation of a 
savings-bank. On receiving the charter, I notified a meeting at 
my office of the petitioners, and any others that felt an interest in 
the subject, to take measures for the acceptance of the act of 
incorporation. According to my recollection, there were only five 
persons present, — Mr. Colburn, Mr. Carney, Mr. Nichols, Mr. 
Beard, and myself. It was suggested that if so little interest was 
felt in the matter, it was hardly worth while to organize; but Mr. 
Carney was willing to act as treasurer, and we concluded to 
appoint ourselves trustees, and make the experiment. A few 
months after this the town of Lowell decided to build a town- 
house, and wanted to borrow the money for the purpose, which 
we decided to lend them. The sum, I think, was $17,000. This 
appears to be a very humble beginning for an institution whose 
deposits for many years past have been over a million." 

Mr. Batchelder was one of the founders of Lowell, having been 
associated with John Lowell, Nathan Appleton, and Patrick Tracy 
Jackson, in the location of the mill-sites and the purchase of the 
property. His old age was spent in Cambridge, where he recently 
died, over ninety years of age. 

William W. Fuller, Esq., and his brother, Elisha Fuller, Esq., 
also JRufus JBigelow Lawrence, Esq., and Albert Locke, Esq., all 
prominent lawyers, were valued members, at one time, of this 
society. 

David Dana, Esq., who died July 26, 1856, was an honored 
and interested member of the parish in its early days. He was 
interested in the Sunday school, and prominently identified with 
the best interests of the society. 

Nathaniel Goodwin, Esq., was another person who is well 
remembered as an interested parishioner of former days. He gave 
a testimony of his devotion to the parish by bequeathing to the 
society upwards of twenty shares in the Railroad Bank, which 
will become available to the parish after a certain time. 

Hon. Adin Uolbrook, too, was a parishioner who exemplified the 
virtues of integrity, industry, and liberality. He remembered the 
Ministry-at-large with a generous bequest. 

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Walker, Esq., Luke Eastman, Esq., and Messrs. James P. Walker 
and Wm. A. Lamb, the latter two superintendents of the Sunday 
school, all deserve honorable mention. 

Among other noted men, we observe the name of Hon. James 
G. Carney, a well-known banker and honored citizen and 
business man. Kirk Boott, also, the prominent manufacturer, 
though he did not call himself a Unitarian, was for some time a 
worshipper in this house. I cannot continue the catalogue by 
reading the names of all the one hundred and fifty or two hundred 
good men who are now dead, who have formerly worshipped here. 
Among the number we find the names of Hon. John JVesmith, at 
one time lieutenant-governor; of Mr. Abner W. Buttrick, deacon, 
for a time, of this church; of Mr. Peder Anderson, well known 
for his business ability and integrity; of Mr. Franklin Forbes-, 
who died in Clinton, but was, for some years, a member of this 
parish, a prominent manufacturer; of Mr. Ransom Reed, a 
merchant of this city; of Mr. Roland Lyman, another merchant ; 
of Dr. Peter Manning ; of Mr. John Wright ; of Mr. Alexander 
Wright, another manufacturer, and the agent, for a long time, of 
the Lowell Manufacturing Company ; of Sheriff Varnum ; of Dr. 
Peleg Bradley, and Hon. Fisher A. Hildreth* 

Since my own ministry began, several of the older parishioners 
have passed away, including Hon. Josiah B. French, a prominent 
railroad contractor and business man, who was once mayor of this 
city; also Mr. Danforth P. Brigham, Mr. John Morrison, Mr. Dan- 
iel Knapp, Mr. Gerrit Bradt, Gen. Benjamin Adams, Mr. Augus- 
tus E. Spalding, Mr. George Wright, Mr. Matthias Parkhurst, Mr. 
Joseph Ra.ynes, Mr. True Wing, also our treasurer, Mr. William 
Lamson, and Hon. Charles Kimball, and Deacon Charles H. 
Wilder, and Mr. Abram French. Of course I cannot speak of 
each of these separately. They were mostly known to you, and 
you can speak their worth better than myself. The list would do 
honor to any society. Of course I cannot include those more 
recently coming among us. For obvious reasons, I cannot 
undertake to portray the characters of any persons who are now 
living. 

I cannot speak separately of the many noble ladies who have 
worshipped here. They have contributed largely to the success of 
the society. Early in the history of the parish, they organized a 



* For additional particulars concerning certain former parishioners, see 
list of college graduates in Appendix. 



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Benevolent Society. The Ladies' 1 Circle has been well sustained 
from the first. The ladies now work on garments, which, are given 
to the poor through the Ministry-at-large. Several hundred gar- 
ments are yearly made and given away. 

The Flower Mission of the Channing Fraternity has also been 
managed by the ladies. Words cannot express the comfort which 
the flowers and the fruit, dispensed by this mission, have given to the 
sick. If time permitted, I would be glad to quote many of the 
grateful sayings which I have heard from the lips of those who 
have been favored in this way. I would be glad, too, to call the 
names of those good ladies who have worked faithfully and steadily 
in this mission, did I not fear that I might not do exact justice 
to all. 

To certain ladies, also, assisted by one or two gentlemen, is due 
the great success which has attended the working of the Holly- Tree 
Inn, an institution also connected with our Channing Fraternity. 
The object of the inn was to furnish food and tea and coffee to such 
as wished, at cost, thus enabling those who could not afford to pay 
high prices, an opportunity of obtaining food, of the best quality ' 
as near cost as possible. It was also a part of the plan to provide 
a place where food could be obtained without the accompanying 
nuisance of the sale of intoxicating spirits. To certain ladies, and 
to one in particular, is clue the great success which the Inn has 
achieved. The work of the ladies during the late war deserves 
honorable mention. During that fearful struggle, the ladies of this 
parish contributed most generously of their means, and forwarded 
many garments, together with delicacies, books, and other needed 
comforts, to the seat of war. 

One lady deserves mention, one still living. It is well known 
that the factory-girls of Lowell once edited a magazine, called the 
"Lowell Offering." It was a somewhat novel idea in its day, and 
the periodical gained great notoriety. It is honorably mentioned 
by Mr. Dickens, in his "American Notes." The editress, Miss 
Harriet Farley, attended this church, and was a member of the 
church. 

We have had many ladies who have possessed fine culture and 
rare accomplishments, but I cannot mention names without giving 
the impression of being unjust to the many whose names I should 
be so likely to omit. 

After the formation of the society, and before the settlement of 
the first pastor, various persons occupied, the pulpit. The first 



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sermon was by the Hev. Caleb Stetson, on the first Sunday 
of October, 1829. He was a graduate of Harvard, as was 
Rev. Artemas B. Muzzey, who also preached several times before 
Mr. Barry was settled. Mr. Muzzey still lives, and is actively 
engaged in the ministry, and resides in Cambridge. Mr. Stetson 
is not living. 

The first religious services of the society were held in the school- 
house of the Appleton and Hamilton Corporations, now used for 
the Free Chapel. 

The first pastor of the church, Rev. Win. Barry, first preached 
to the society, May 9, 1830, and was then invited to remain indefi- 
nitely. Sept. 8, 1830, the society voted to extend a call to Mr. 
Barry, on a salary of $700.00 per year. Oct. 8, 1830, the society 
voted to call their organization the " South Congregational Society," 
which name it has since retained. It had previously been known 
as the First Unitarian Society, and the more recent Avarrants for 
meetings use this latter name. Mr. Barry, having accepted the call, 
was ordained Nov. 17, 1830. The services were held in the First 
Baptist Church, which had been politely offered for the occasion. 
The council convened at the hotel of Mr. Cushing Baker, at 10 
o'clock. It will be interesting to many here present to know who 
composed this council, nearly fifty years ago. Dr. Ripley, of Con- 
cord, was moderator, and Deacon Brown his delegate ; Rev. Dr. 
Eaton came from Boxford ; Rev. Dr. Thayer, from Lancaster ; 
Rev. Mr. Loring, from North Andover ; Rev. Mr. Allen, from 
Chelmsford, with Mr. Joel Adams as delegate; Rev. Mr. Lawrence 
from Tyngsborough, with Deacon Farwell ; Rev. Mr. Pierpont, from 
Hollis Street Church in Boston ; Rev. Mr. Whitman, from Billerica, 
with Deacon Whiting; Rev. Mr. Randall, from Westford, with 
Deacon Prescott; Rev. Mr. White, from Littleton, with Deacon 
Hartwell; Rev. Mr. Lincoln, from Fitchburg; Rev. Mr. Robinson, 
from Groton, with Mr. S. Dana; Rev. Mr. Francis, from Water- 
town ; Rev. Mr. Barlow, from Lynn, and Rev. Dr. Lowell, from 
Boston West Church. Several of these clergymen afterwards 
received the title of D. D., but I give their titles as they were at 
that time. Of all the ministers who took part in this council and 
ordination, only one still lives besides Mr. Barry himself, and that 
one is Rev. Calvin Lincoln, then a young man in the fifth year of 
his ministry, now one of our patriarchs, and residing in Hingham. 

The ordination service began with the anthem, " The Lord is in 
His holy temple,, let all the earth keep silence before Him." Rev. 



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Mr. Francis, of Watertown, offered the introductory prayer ; Rev. 
Mr. "White, of Littleton, read the Scriptures; the choir then sang 
the anthem, " Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts " ; Rev. Dr. Lowell, 
of Boston, preached the sermon. His text was from Rom. xiv, 4: 
" To his own master, he standeth or falleth." Then was sung the 
hymn of Henry Ware, Jr., — 

" O Thou who on Thy chosen Son, 
Didst send Thy Spirit, like a dove." 

Dr. Eaton, of Boxford, made the ordaining prayer, and Rev. Mr. 
Allen, of Chelmsford, gave the charge Then was sung an original 
hymn by John Pierpont, beginning, — ■ 

" ' On Earth be peace.' O God, that word 
To our ears comes not, as it came " 

Dr. Thayer addressed the society ; Rev. Mr. Barlow gave the right 
hand of fellowship ; Rev. Mr. Loring offered the concluding prayer ; 
and the services closed with an original hymn by Rev. Mr. Barlow. 

In the church records, Mr. Bany writes: "The weather being 
unpleasant, the house was not crowded. The solemnities, which 
were very impressive and interesting, were listened to with unin- 
terrupted attention by a respectable congregation. The music was 
particularly chaste and serious. The discourse of Dr. Lowell 
enforced the right of private judgment with great force and 
seriousness and effect. It was soon after published by N". Simp- 
kins & Co., of Boston, at the request of the committee of arrange- 
ments." Mr. Barry, the candidate, was presented with a gown by 
the ladies of his parish. At this time, there were sixty families in 
the parish ; in the course of the following year, seventy more families 
were added, making one hundred and thirty in all. On the fourth 
day of May, 1831, the North Middlesex Association of Ministers 
was formed, at the house of Mr. Barry. Rev. Dr. Packard presided 
at the meeting, and Rev. Mr. Robinson, of Groton, conducted 
divine service in the chapel. 

Up to this time, the society had worshipped in what is now the 
Free Chapel. On Saturday, Sept. 17, 1831, ground was broken for 
the erection of a new meeting-house. The whole capital stock had 
been previously subscribed. Christmas day, 1832, the new meeting- 
house, the one in which we are now assembled, was dedicated to 
Almighty God. The services began with a voluntary on the new 

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organ, followed by the anthem, " The Lord is in his holy temple." 
Rev. H. B. Goodwin, of Concord, offered the opening prayer, and 
read the Scriptures; then followed the anthem, "How lovely are 
thy dwellings, O Lord of Hosts." Rev. Dr. Packard, of North 
Chelmsford, offered the prayer of dedication, which was followed 
by the anthem of dedication, which was sung in original music, by 
L. Eastman, Esq. The pastor delivered the sermon, his text being 
Isa. xxxii, 8: "But the liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal 
things shall he stand." Rev. Dr. Walker, of Charlestown, offered 
the concluding prayer, which was followed by the " Gloria in 
excelsis." Mr. Barry writes, in the records, "The day was pleasant, 
and the audience large. 'Peace be with this house; for my brethren 
and companions' sake, I say, Peace be with thee.' The whole 
estimated cost of the house, with the land and the organ, was 
$28,000. The architect was H. Benjamin, of Boston ; the builder, 
Mr. Rowe, of Groton." 

After a faithful and conscientious pastorate of four years and 
eight months, Mr. Barry's connection with the society ceased, at 
his own request, July 12, 1835. He was born in Boston, Jan. 10, 
1805. He was prepared for college by Rev. Mr. Richardson, of 
Hingham. He graduated at Brown University in 1822, and at the 
Harvard Divinity School in 1829. He was a serious, thoughtful 
preacher. Endowed with good understanding, and furnished with 
a thorough education, he was well prepared for his chosen mission. 
His pure, saintly character ; his devotion to his work; his interest 
in the poor, and in philanthropic institutions; his gentle dealing 
with the sick and afflicted, all rendered his ministerial labors, in 
this and other parishes, highly appreciated. He is pleasantly and 
affectionately remembered by those of his parishioners who still 
survive. He married Miss Elizabeth Willard, a daughter of the late 
Dea. Cephas Willard, of Petersham, who was a lineal descendant 
of the first President Willard of Harvard University, and a 
nephew of the second president of that name of the same insti- 
tution. Mr. and Mrs. Barry had two daughters, both of whom are 
living. Mr. Barry still lives, in his seventy-fifth year, and resides 
in Chicago. After leaving Lowell, he was settled in FVamingham, 
and afterwards, over the Lee Street Unitarian Church, in this city. 
He has been three times in Europe. He was the originator and 
president of the Chicago Historical Society. A valuable collection 
had been made of many thousand curious relics of the past, possess- 
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trip to Europe, occurred the great Chicago fire, when the building 
containing this valuable collection was burned, with all its contents. 
Mrs. Barry lias been an earnest worker among the ladies engaged in 
the object of furnishing the home of Washington, at Mount Yer* 
non, and has been at the head of that movement in Illinois. We 
had wished and hoped that Mr. Barry might have been with us 
to-day, but his physical condition makes it impossible for him to be 
here. His wife writes, at his request, to say that he desires to 
express - his great regret that he is unable to write himself. He 
would be so glad to express what is in his mind to say, at a time 
which revives so many precious memories, and connects him so 
tenderly with a past, filled with interesting work, and. rich with 
friendships: glad to meet again the dear faces of old friends; but 
it is simply impossible." 

After Mr. Barry's retirement, the church did not remain long 
without a pastor. Rev. Henry A. Miles, who has since acquired the 
title of D. D., was installed, as the second pastor, Dec. 14, 1836. 
He was born in Grafton, May 30, 1809. He graduated, at Brown 
University in 1829, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1832. 
He was ordained and settled, in Hallowell, Me., Dec. 19, 1832. 
He was called to this parish in 1836, and installed Dec. 14. The 
exercises consisted of an organ voluntary, followed by the anthem, 
" The earth is the Lord's," etc. Rev. Mr. Emmons, of Dunstable, 
X. H. (now Nashua), offered the opening prayer, and read the 
Scriptures: then followed the anthem, "Lord of all power and 
might." Rev. Dr. Walker, of Charlestown, afterwards president of 
Harvard L^niversity, delivered the sermon ; Rev. Mr. Loring, of 
Xorth Andover, offered the prayer of installation : the charge was 
delivered by Rev. Dr Parkman, of Boston ; Rev. Mr. Thompson, 
of Salem, gave the right hand of fellowship ; Rev. Mr. Pierpont, of 
Boston, addressed the society: Dr. Elisha Bartlett composed the 
original hymn which was used on the occasion, and Rev. Mr. Ripley, 
of Watertown, offered the closing prayer. Of all these, Dr. 
Thompson is the only one living. 

Dr. Miles continued in the pastorate nearly seventeen years, the 
longest period of service, by far, of any of the seven pastors of the 
society. I cannot here, in his presence, say all that might truthfully 
be said of the value of his work and ministry. The prosperity of 
the church and society during his term of service; the diligence 
with which he studied and labored, and the prominent part which 
he took as a citizen of the city, of which one of the most inter- 



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esting memoirs is from his pen, are facts well attested by his former 
parishioners, who always greet his return to them with joy and 
gladness. 

After his resignation in 1853, Dr. Miles became, for six years, the 
secretary of the American Unitarian Association. Since then he 
has travelled extensively, having lived abroad in all about six years. 
In 1865, after a long vacation, during which time he was occupied 
in study and travel, he accepted the pastorate of Christ Church in 
Longwood. He retained this charge until 1871. In 1876, after a 
respite of five years, he again girded himself for the work, and 
took the charge of the New North Church, in Hingham, to which 
church he still ministers with undiminished ardor and enthusiasm. 
Dr. Miles has been twice married : first, to Miss Augusta II. Moore, 
of Cambridge ; second, to Miss Elizabeth T. Wright, of Lowell. 
To his first wife were born four sons, all deceased, and three 
daughters, one of whom is living. Dr. Miles has written several 
theological books, of much value. 

Two years after the resignation of Dr. Miles, the society gave a 
call to Mr. Theodore Tebbets, who became their third pastor. He 
was born in Parsonsfield, Me., April 1, 1831, and was the son of 
the Hon. Noah and Mary Esther Woodman Tebbets. When four 
years of age, his father, Judge Tebbets, moved his family to 
Rochester, N. H. Theodore prepared for college at Phillips 
Exeter Academy. I shall quote freely from a memoir by Rev. 
E. C. Towne. " In the academy," says Mr. Townc, " he held a 
high rank for manliness and force of character, and for accurate 
and elegant scholarship. ... In college, Mr. Tebbets loved 
scholarship for its own sake, and for the hope of service to the 
world ; he also sought its honors ardently, that he might justify the 
expectations with which he had been already fixed on as a future 
instructor at Exeter. Reticent by nature, reserved by habit, 
extremely suspicious of insincere demonstration, as averse to empty 
manners as he was tenacious of genial manhood, his outward 
bearing was an imperfect manifestation of the real qualities within. 
To many he was little known, or was not rightly known ; while by 
a few, at least, his mind was admired, his heart loved, his society 
sought, and his winning power fully acknowledged." He entered 
Harvard College in the Sophomore year, and graduated in 1851. 
He took a high rank as a scholar, and graduated with high honors. 
He had great fondness for study, and became an unusually accom- 
plished man. After his graduation, he was for a time in the 



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Harvard Divinity School, then an instructor at the Phillips 
Academy in Exeter. 

He entered the Harvard Divinity School again in 1853, and 
graduated there in 1855. He received a call to settle over this 
society before he graduated at the school. He was ordained, in 
this church, Sept. 19, 1855. Rev. S. D. Robbins, of Framingham, 
made the opening prayer; Rev. F. C. Williams, of North Andover, 
read the Scriptures;- Dr. Huntington, of Cambridge, delivered the 
sermon ; Dr. Peabody, then of Portsmouth, offered the ordaining 
prayer ; Dr. Lothrop, of Boston, gave the charge ; Rev. Mr. Wood- 
bury, of the Lee Street Church, in this city, gave the right hand of 
fellowship ; Dr. Miles addressed the society, and Rev. S. J. Spalding, 
of Newburyport, made the closing prayer. After a brief ministry 
of only ten days, during which time he had preached but twice, he 
was attacked by a violent and lingering fever, which lasted many 
months. In May, 1856, he sent his resignation to the parish. In 
accepting the resignation, they very generously allowed his salary to 
continue until the September following, deducting only the pulpit 
expenses. He spent the summer of 1856 at the Isles of Shoals; 
but he never fully recovered. In the autumn he again preached in 
a few places. 

Dec. 29, 1856, he was called to the Unitarian Church in Medford, 
and was installed as their pastor, April 15, 1857. But his ambition 
far exceeded his physical endurance. He had preached but a short 
time before he was again compelled to suspend his labors. July 3, 
1859, he again returned to his people in Medford, and preached a 
sermon entitled, "A Pastor's Greeting to his People." But he had 
only reached the third Sunday of his labors, when he was again 
compelled to suspend his parochial duties, never again to resume 
them. On the '29th of July, an early, devoted friend read to his 
people his farewell discourse. His resignation was sent to the 
society, and here, as at Lowell, on accepting it, they voted to 
continue his salary four months. He tried a change of climate, but 
to no purpose. It was impossible to stay the hand of death. He 
died in Medford, Jan. 29, 18d3. He was married to Miss Ellen 
Sever, of Kingston, Mass., by whom he had one son, John Sever 
Tebbets. This son is now in Harvard College. Mrs. Tebbets was 
again married to George S. Hale, Esq., of Boston. 

The fourth pastor of this society was the Rev. Frederic Hinckley. 
He was born in Boston, Nov. 3, 1820. He graduated at the Plar- 
vard Divinity School in 1843. He was ordained, at Windsor, Vt., 



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Dec. 13, 1843. He subsequently preached in Norton and Haverhill, 
Mass., and Hartford, Conn. He was installed in this church, Nov. 
12, 1856. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. Hedge, then of 
Brookline ; the other parts were taken by Rev. W. H. Cudworth, of 
East Boston, Rev. Augustus Woodbury, of Lowell, Rev. T. B. 
Thayer, Universalist, of Boston, and Rev. Theodore Tebbets. It 
was during the ministry of Mr. Hinckley that the second service 
was abolished. It was also during his ministry that the new vestry 
was erected. The proprietors of the South Congregational Meeting- 
house, being a distinct corporation from what is now called the South 
Congregational or First Unitarian Society, erected the building con- 
taining our vestry and the stores underneath, and gave the use of 
the vestry to this society as an equivalent for the land on which the 
building stands. Mr'. Hinckley's ministry closed Oct. 3, 1864. He 
was afterwards settled in Boston, and also in the city of Wash- 
ington. He resides at present in Dorchester. He married Miss 
Sarah A. Hewes, and has two sons and two daughters, all married. 

The fifth pastor, Rev. Charles Edward Grinnell, was born in 
Baltimore, Md., May 7, 1841. He graduated at Harvard College 
in 1862. He took a high rank as a scholar, and was the class-day 
orator. After graduation, he spent two years at the Yale Theolog- 
ical School. He then spent one year in the Harvard Divinity 
School, from which he graduated in 1865. He was married, July 
11, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth Tucker Washburn, daughter of the 
late Wm. R. P. Washburn, Esq., of Boston. A week after his 
marriage, he sailed for Europe, and after travelling for a time, -he 
studied a year at the University of Gottingen. He studied 
Hebrew, and heard lectures on the Old Testament, especially those 
of Professor Ewald. After some more travelling, he returned to 
America, in October, 1866. In January, 1867, he accepted a call 
to Lowell, and was ordained Feb. 19, 1867. The order of service 
was as follows: Introductory prayer, by Rev. G. H. Young, of 
Westford ; reading of the Scriptures, by Rev. M. G, Gage, of 
Nashua; sermon, by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, d. d., of Boston; 
ordaining prayer, by Rev. S. K. Lothrop, d. d., of Boston ; charge, 
by Rev. E. J. Young, of Newton; right hand of fellowship, by 
Rev. C. C. Salter, of West Cambridge; address to the people, by 
Rev. Augustus Woodbury, of Providence; closing prayer, by Rev. 
G. L. Chaney, of Boston. 

In June, 1868, Mr. Grinnell published his translation from the Ger- 
man, entitled "Modern Representations of the Life of Jesus." In 



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October, 1869. he received a call from Harvard Church, in Charles- 
town, and. accepting it. was installed there Nov. 10 of. that year. 
Jan. 4. 1871, he had the honor of preaching the annual election 
sermon before the government of the Commonwealth, in the Old 
South Church, in Boston. June 21, IS 70. he was commissioned 
as chaplain of the fifth regiment. M. V. M., and resigned May 8, 
1872. During his ministry in Charlestown, he published several 
theological and philosophical essays. In 1873, he resigned his 
pastorate., and in 1874 retired from the ministry. In September of 
the latter year, he entered the Harvard Law School, where he grad- 
uated in 1876. He was admitted to the bar, Xov. 28, 1876, and now 
practises his profession in Boston. He has been commissioned as a 
master in chancery for Suffolk County. He has two sons. 

The sixth pastor. Rev. Henry Blanc-hard, was born in Philadel- 
phia. Aug. 13, 1833. He graduated at Tufts College, and was 
ordained at Brooklyn. X. Y., in a Universalist church. Sept. 24. 
1857. He remained in that church until January. 1869. He 
preached at the Unitarian church in Indianapolis, Ind., from Janu- 
ary, 1869.. to December, 1870. He was ordained in this church Jan. 
19, 1871. Rev. C. C. Hussey. of Billerica. made the opening prayer; 
Rev. Clarence Fowler read the Scriptures; Rev. James Freeman 
Clarke, d. d.. preached the sermon : Rev. M. K. Schermerhorn. of 
Boston, offered the prayer of installation ; Rev. W. H. Cudworth, 
of East Boston, gave the charge; Rev. J. B. Moore, of Lawrence, 
gave the right hand of fellowship ; Rev. C. E. Grinnell addressed 
the people ; and Rev. G. H. Young, of Westford, offered the clos- 
ing prayer. Mr. Blanchard's ministry in Lowell closed in May, 
1873. 

Of the seventh and present pastor I shall be expected to say very 
little. For the sake of making a complete historical record, I shall 
be pardoned for giving the following dates. He was born in Sulli- 
van. X. H., April 17, 1845. Graduated at Phillips Exeter Academy 
in 1864, and at Harvard University in 1868. He taught three 
years. — one in West Virginia, one in Boston, and one in Jalfrey, 
X. H. He graduated at the Harvard Divinity School in 1^74. and 
was ordained in this church, Dec. 31. 1874. The opening psalm was 
read by Rev. Charles Babbidge, of Pepperell ; the opening prayer 
and reading of the Scriptures were by the Rev. Warren H. Cud- 
worth, of East Boston: the sermon, by Rev. C. C. Everett, d. d., 
of Cambridge; the ordaining prayer, by Rev. G. W. Briggs, d. d.. 
of Cambridge; the charge, by Rev. W. 0. White, of Keene : the 



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right hand of fellowship, by Rev. J. P. Sheafe, Jr., of South Natick; 
the address to the people, by Rev. Henry Blanchard, of Worcester; 
and the closing prayer, by Rev. C. C. Hussey, of Billerica. 

I find that the church connected with this society was organized 
Nov. 7, 1830. The covenant was at first signed by twenty-four 
persons, three of whom are still living, and present at these services. 
The communion plate was provided by subscription; the table was 
presented by Mr. Joseph Bradley. The first communion* was 
observed May 1, 1831, and about thirty communicants were present. 
The communion was then observed four times each year. At a later 
period, it was decided to commune every month; and twelve years 
ago it was decided to commune every second month, beginning with 
the first Sunday in January, which is the present custom. The first 
deacons of the church were Thomas Ordway and Eliab Richardson. 
Mr. Ordway was one of the original members of the church. He was 
a person greatly respected and much loved. His pastor said, at his 
funeral, "I trace through his correspondence the unwearied patience 
and undying hope, the genial home love, the divine faith, and the 
manly integrity, that stand fast and even grow stronger through it all. 
I cannot but see in that quiet, unobtrusive life, the real spirit of 
Christian heroism." Feb. 5, 1837, Isaac Scripture and John A. 
JTnowles were chosen deacons, Mr. Ordway still holding his office. 
Deacon Knowles still lives, an honor to his office and his church. 
Deacon Scripture died in 1852. Dr. Miles said of him, " He gave 
proof of his discipleship by a quiet and steadfast course of duty, 
never wishing to attract to himself observation by his officiousness 
or pretension, and ever honestly honoring his vocation by the virtues 
of truth, uprightness, and an unquestionable and unsuspected 
integrity." 

July 10, 1857, Joel Adams and Abner W. ButtricJc were elected 
deacons. They were men of the purest and best character, grate- 
fully remembered by their fellow parishioners and citizens. Mr. 
Buttrick was also the clerk of the church from 1857 to 1860. All of 
the other records which have fortunately been placed upon the books, 
have been made by the various pastors, who have always acted as 
scribes. 



* Mr. Frederick Folsom, the first treasurer, under date of May 1, 1831, 
writes : " This day, for the first time in our infant society, the holy festival 
of our Lord's Supper was observed. It was a solemn and impressive scene, 
to sec a few pure followers of Christ, taking their stand, not on creeds of 
human origin, but on the Bible, and the Bible only, thus assembled and for 
such a purpose." 



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Deacon Buttrick resigned his office, Dec. 4, 1863. Feb. 5, 1864, 
C. B. Coburn and Charles H. Wilder were chosen deacons. Mr. 
Coburn declined the office; Mr. Wilder accepted. Deacon Wilder, 
after a service of fifteen years as deacon, passed to his spiritual 
home in the spring of this present year. 

Three hundred and thirty-nine persons who have attended this 
church, have been members of the church. Ninety-nine were re- 
ceived during Mr. Barry's ministry, 99 during Dr. Miles's ministry, 
1 during Mr. Tebbets' ministry, 35 during Mr. Hinckley's ministry, 
'20 during Mr. GrinnelPs ministry, 7 during Mr. Blanchard's min- 
istry, and 23 thus far during the present pastorate. Fifty-five 
members of churches have not transferred their connections to 
this church. This roll of membership is not so large as would 
be found in many churches of the same age. One reason is, be- 
cause our congregations have been composed of the same persons, 
in great part, from year to year. Another reason is, that church 
membership in our communion has not been regarded so much as 
the outward evidence of salvation, and its importance has not, 
perhaps, been felt as it ought to be. 

We have had 446 baptisms : 127 in the pastorate of Mr. Barry, 
181 in that of Dr. Miles, 56 in that of Mr. Hinckley, 10 in that of 
Mr. Grinnell, 14 in that of Mr. Blanchard, 54 during the present 
pastorate, and 4 in the different intervals. 

There have been 314 marriages: 73 by Mr. Barry, 139 by Dr. 
Miles, 1 by Mr. Tebbets, 20 by Mr. Hinckley, 17 during the ministry 
of Mr. Grinnell, 15 during the ministry of Mr. Blanchard, 26 dur- 
ing the present pastorate, and 23 at other times. 

There have been 598 deaths: 93 during the ministry of Mr. 
Barry, 1 between Mr. Barry and Dr. Miles, 226 during the ministry 
of Dr. Miles, 18 between Dr. Miles and Mr. Hinckley, Mr. Tebbets 
attending none, 94 during the ministry of Mr. Hinckley, 15 between 
Mr. Hinckley and Mr. Grinnell, 22 during the ministry of Mr. 
Grinnell, 5 between Mr. Grinnell and Mr. Blanchard, 21 during the 
ministry of Mr. Blanchard, 17 between Mr. Blanchard's ministry 
and the present pastorate, and 86 during the present j>astorate. 

Seven ministers have been ordained or installed in this parish, 
besides one who was ordained in this church for work in another 
field. The pastors of this church have assisted in the ordinations 
and installations of about fifty clergymen. 

There are now 790 persons in the society, — 351 males and 439 
females. We have 21 college graduates: 11 from Harvard, and 1 



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each from Amherst, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Williams, Dartmouth, 
Waterville, Vassar, the United States Naval Academy, and 2 from 
the Massachusetts School of Technology in Boston. We have 3 
students in Harvard. We have 7 lawyers, 5 physicians, 1 dentist, 
2 past ministers, the city marshal, the city treasurer, the superin- 
tendent of schools, and 13 school-teachers (2 male and 11 female), 
2 agents of corporations, and several other persons connected with 
the mills. We have 1 portrait-painter, 1 electrician, 1 hydraulic 
engineer, 20 manufacturers, 50 merchants, 8 real-estate brokers, 6 
bankers, the register of deeds, 4 insurance men, 5 journalists, 1 
sheriff, 2 photographers, 5 railroad men, including the manager 
and treasurer of the Lowell R. R., and the superintendent of the 
Nashua & Lowell. We have 2 florists to decorate for us, and Ave 
have the man who supplies the city with ice. We have 4 farmers, 
and 50 or 60 representatives of the different trades and industries. 

Fifteen persons are now connected with the parish who belonged 
to families that were first associated with the parish, fifty years 
ago ; only seven of these were twenty-one years of age at that 
time. 

The chairmen of the standing committees have been : James G. 
Carney, 1829-40; John Avery, 1840-46; John Wright, 1846-47; 
Seth Ames, 1847-48; John Wright, second time, 1848-50; John 
Nesmith, 1850-51; John Wright, third time, 1851-64; John F. 
Kimball, 1864-67; Charles B. Coburn, 1867-69; Charles Kimball, 
1869-70 ; George F. Richardson, 1870-72 ; Hapgood Wright, 
1872-74; William P. Brazer, 1874-78; Charles II. Coburn, since 
1878. 

The treasurers have been John S. C. Knowlton, 1829-32; 
Frederick Folsom, 1832-34; Pelham W. Warren, 1834-45; Jos. 
F. Trott, 1845-50; Matthias Parkhurst, 1850-53; J. B. McAlvin, 
1853-65; Matthias Parkhurst, second time, 1865-67; John F. 
Kimball, 1867-69; William Lamson, Jr., 1869-76; and Ralph F. 
Brazer, since 1876. 

The clerks have been: John Avery, 1829-43; Abner W. But- 
trick, 1843-53; E. W. Young, 1853-56; S. D. Sargent, 1856-57 ; 
J. F. Trott, 1857-61 ; John H. McAlvin, since 1861. 

Early in the history of the parish, a library association was 
formed, called the South Parish Library Association. Between 
fourteen and fifteen hundred volumes were collected. They were 
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but little used, for the growth of our public libraries in the city 
has done away, in great measure, with the need of it. 

Our Sunday-school library has recently been put in good order 
and newly catalogued. It contains between seven and eight 
hundred volumes, all well selected. 

In the records made by Mr. Barry, I read : " A Sabbath school 
was commenced in this church in June, 1830, the whole number of 
children the first season being about forty-five, and the teachers 
varying from twelve to twenty. The superintendence of the 
school was committed to brother John A. Knowles, Avho, at every 
meeting of the school, delivered a short lecture to the children. 
The instruction consisted almost wholly in familiar explanations of 
Scripture, and conversations between the teachers and the children. 
Meetings of the teachers were held weekly, at which Mr. Barry 
explained the Scriptures, and a free conference respecting the inter- 
ests of the school was encouraged. . . . The school-hour was 
that immediately preceding morning service. Owing to inclement 
weather, the school was suspended from December to April. The 
efforts of Mr. Knowles were eminently useful, and the success of 
the experiment far surpassed the expectations of the most sanguine. 
A small library was formed for the use of the children, which, at 
the close of the season, numbered 100 volumes." March 25, 1832, 
Pelham W. Warren, Esq., succeeded Mr. Knowles as superin- 
tendent. The other superintendents have been the following : 
John A. Knowles (second time), Ithamar A. Beard, James P. 
Walker, W. G. Wise, John F. Kimball, Charles H. Coburn, E, B. 
Patch, Wm. A. Lamb, M. G. Howe, Newman W. Storer, Walter 
Coburn, Frank K. Stearns, George D. Adams, elected in 1879. 

Our school has never been so large in proportion to the size of 
our society as many schools, and this is chiefly due to the fact that 
the number of children in our parish is very small in proportion to 
the number of adults. Nearly all our children, perhaps all who 
may be properly said to belong to the parish; are in the school. 
Since my connection with the parish, the whole number connected 
with the school, including the attendance of adults in the Bible 
class, has been as large as a hundred and fifty; but this number has 
not been uniformly maintained, and varies with the season of the 
year. Originally the vacation came in winter. At present, it 
comes in summer. We cannot name the long list of good men and 
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wearied with hearing so many names, nor can we name all who 
have rendered assistance by way of instructing in music, arranging 
amusements for the children, and otherwise. 

The first choir that ever sang for the society was composed of the 
following: Mr. Bowers, leader, first tenor; William Fiske,* tenor; 
Lydia Balch, first treble; Catharine H. Hudson (afterwards Mrs. 
William Fiske), second treble ; Abraham Howe, David Dana, and 
Ithamar A. Beard, sang bass, and Abner Ball played, first on the 
clarinet, and afterwards on the organ. Of these, Mr. and Mrs. 
Fiske are all that are now living. It would be impossible to find 
the names of all who have composed the various choirs and 
choruses of the society, and so we omit the names of those who 
have composed the subsequent choirs. 

The organists have been : Abner Ball, Anthony W. Searle (after- 
wards a Portuguese consul), E. B. Howe, Benj. Walker, Warren H. 
Cud worth, Asa V. Hill, George B. Allen. 

Greenwood's selection of psalms and hymns was used by the 
society till 1868, when the Hymn and Tune Book of the American 
Unitarian Association was introduced. A ladyf who is almost 
never absent from church, and who has kept a record of the hymns 
sung, writes to me " respecting our present hymn and tune book, 
many of the hymns have not been sung by us. That beautiful one 
by Phebe Cary, beginning, 'One Sweetly Solemn Thought,' has 
been used only once, and that was when Mrs. Livermore preached. 
Two hundred and thirty-two hymns have been sung ten or more 
times ; forty-two have been sung fourteen times." 

The sextons of this church have been John Morrison, 1829-46 ; 
J. S. Gordon, 1846-49; William Wood, 1849-55; Aaron Scadding, 
1855 to the present time. Our present faithful sexton has served 
in that capacity, it will be seen, for more than twenty-five years. 
He was one of the first members of the society at its origin. 

Early in the ministry of Mr. Barry, a number of ladies met and 
organized a Ladies' Charitable Society. I presume there are few 
who remember anything about it. The formation of the Ministry- 
at-large did away, in great measure, with the need of that society. 
In 1843, certain prominent persons connected with this society con- 



* To whom I am indebted for these facts. 

t Mrs. Roland Lyman, daughter of the late John Howland, Esq., first 
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ceived the idea of forming a society to carry on missionary and 
charitable work. An organization was effected, which took the 
name of the Lowell 31issionary Society. The original object, 
as expressed in the constitution, was to do missionary work, espe- 
cially in the Western States. Soon, however, it was thought best to 
establish in Lowell a Ministry -at-large, to dispense charity to the 
poor, and to furnish them with opportunities of listening to the 
gospel on Sundays. The society is not a sectarian institution, and 
cannot be, but the members of this parish have taken such a 
prominent part in its workings, that it is proper to speak of it in 
this connection. The first person invited to become a Minister-at- 
large, here, was Rev. Crawford Nightingale, in 1844. After an 
experiment of one month, however, he found it best to abandon 
the task, and the work of organizing and administering the 
charities really devolved upon Rev. Horatio Wood, who served in 
the capacity of a Minister-at-large faithfully for twenty-four years 
(1844-68). The valuable services of Mr. Wood, during his long- 
term of service, deserve the lasting gratitude of the citizens of 
Lowell, not to mention his connection with the People's Club 
and other philanthropies. His successor, Rev. J. C. Collins, 
remained only eighteen months, and was succeeded, in 1870, by 
the present Minister-atdarge, Rev. H. C. Duganne, whose success 
in discharging the duties of his position has been so marked that 
his services are justly thought to be invaluable and indispensable. 

Another institution intimately connected with our society, is the 
Channing Fraternity. This institution was planned and set in 
order by my predecessor, Rev. Henry Blan chard. It has done 
an excellent work. It has for one object the furnishing of rational 
and proper amusements for such as desire to enjoy them, but have 
not the means to pay high prices. It also provides musical and 
literary entertainments and lectures, either gratis or at a very low 
price, to enable those who really enjoy first-class entertainments, 
but cannot afford to pay the high prices usually charged for 
admission, an opportunity to enjoy them. The entertainments 
have been well patronized. The Fraternity also provides for a 
course of sermons to be delivered, in the autumn, in Huntington 
Hall. It has also given considerable sums in charity to the de- 
serving poor. The Flower Mission and Holly Tree Inn, connected 
with this Fraternity, I have already noticed. 

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known as the Church of the Pilgrims, or more familiarly, the 
Lee Street Church, was organized in 1846. The first pastor was 
Rev. M. A. H. Niles, who resigned July 18, 1847. The second 
pastor was Rev. William Barry, who was installed Oct. 2, 1847. 
He is the same who was the first pastor of this church. His 
ministry lasted five years. The third pastor was Rev. Augustus 
Woodbury, who was installed Sept. 4, 1853, and resigned April 1, 
1857. Mr. Woodbury is one of our most honored, gifted, and 
respected preachers. He is at present settled over a church in 
Providence, R. I. Rev. John K. Karchcr was the fourth pastor, 
Avho was ordained March 30, 1.858, and remained only six months. 
Rev. John B. Willard supplied six months from January, 1859, and 
Rev. William C. Tenncy was installed, as the fifth pastor, Oct. 26, 
1859. He resigned April 26, 1861. This was the last pastorate. 
Shortly after, Aug. 20, 1861, the society was dissolved. The 
church connected with this society numbered forty-seven, and 
Daniel Knapp and John Morrison were the deacons. Thirty-nine 
baptisms are recorded, 94 marriages, and 65 deaths. 

Beloved friends : I have endeavored, in this plain narrative of 
facts, condensed so far as possible, to give you the history of this 
parish. My materials have not been so ample as I could have 
wished. Scribes too often fail to record all that is of interest in 
passing events, because they seem so fresh to the minds of every 
one ; but the important fact is overlooked, that to future gen- 
erations, who are glad to know what their ancestors have done, 
such facts can never be too fully written out. I hope that during 
the next fifty years the records will be so fully kept that he who 
writes the history of the parish, at that time, will not be troubled 
to find his data. 

I am only too painfully conscious of how imperfectly my task has 
been performed. You will doubtless recall names which I have 
omitted, which should have been mentioned and eulogized ; and 
you may feel that I have not done ample justice to those whom I 
have mentioned. But you must remember that I am a stranger to 
all those who have not been parishioners within five years, and you 
must know, also, that I have gladly availed myself of all the in- 
formation which you have placed at my disposal. 

Allow me to take this opportunity of thanking both past and 
present parishioners for the prompt, and generally full, replies 
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This present occasion is sad as well as joyous. As you assemble 
to-day to hear the record of the past, your thoughts dwell upon the 
dear and loved forms of those who have worshipped with you here 
in former years ; of the aged who were among the founders of the 
society; of those who passed on in the spring-time of life, and of the 
young who had given promise of future usefulness. For the mo- 
ment, you wish them back. Yet such a wish is to wish that the 
laws of the Universe should be different from what they are; it 
would be doubting that the Deity " doeth all things well." Let us 
think of these beloved spirits as having entered a state of "far more 
exceeding glory," where " the wicked cease from troubling, and the 
weary are at rest." 

Only a few survive, of all who were among the founders of this 
society. How many of us will live to witness the one hnndreth anni- 
versary? Our Heavenly Father alone can tell. Our fathers planted 
this vineyard. They were faithful laborers; their labors were well 
directed, and the fruits of their labors have been tasted far and wide. 
Into all parts of our country have gone those who were educated 
in our Sunday school, and listened to the ministrations from this 
pulpit. We hear good and encouraging reports of the work which 
they are doing, of the prominent positions which they have taken 
as citizens, and of the important positions of honor and trust which 
they have been called to fill. The influence exerted by those who 
have gone out from among us has been felt in the business world. 
Banking, manufacturing, the mercantile profession, and other call- 
ings have been honored by our parishioners. Their influence has 
been felt in the legal profession, to which they have furnished 
honored advocates and judges of the various courts. They have 
honored the sacred calling of Theology, too ; I recall one, at this 
moment, whose influence is felt weekly by hundreds of children 
and young people who are gathered in his Sunday school, to hear 
his wise instructions, and to praise God, as he leads them in sacred 
song. So, too, our parishioners have graced the medical profession. 
Among the honored names of that profession are not a few who 
have attended this church and Sunday school. Among the learned 
medical works which have been used with profit by medical stu- 
dents, more than one has been written by our past and present 
parishioners. Of school-teachers, also, and officers of instruction, 
our church has furnished, and still furnishes, many. In every 
department of business, in fact, may be found those who have 
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Most profitable has been the fruit which this vineyard of our 
Lord has produced. The soil is all the better for the care which 
it has received. We who are the present laborers must toil on in 
the same vineyard. We must avail ourselves of all the improve- 
ments in this spiritual husbandry, for, in this work, as in all work, 
we learn more and more of methods from day to day. 

Few of us, if any, will listen to the record of our work, as it 
will be read fifty years from to-day; but let nothing hinder lis 
from making such a profitable use of our talents that, at the 
close of our labors, we shall hear the "Well done, good and 
faithful servants." 



BY REV. HENRY A. MILES, D. D. 



Ix reflecting npon the history of this society, a noticeable fact is 
the continuity of its character. You would hardly expect this in 
so fluctuating a population. But its founders were able men, 
foreseeing and strong of purpose. The permanent aim of this 
society found expression in the first meetings for its foundation; 
just as a historian tells us the whole spirit of the Roman Empire 
was sealed up in the first stone laid on the Capitoline Hill. Its 
founders had a warm attachment to a generous interpretation of 
Christianity. That lives here still. They had an interest in all 
their fellow-worshippers, so making in the outset a vigorous society- 
feeling. That lives here still. They had a sincere friendliness to 
every other religious society in this city. That lives here still. 
They wished to make this parish a helper to every good cause 
that would benefit this community, — education, temperance, good 
order, public morals. That lives here still. They judged men, not 
by their ecclesiastical preferences or professions, but by the fruits 
of their daily life. That way of judging lives here still. They 
believed that religion is not a thing to be picked all to pieces, and 
its fragments to be tossed hither and thither as an effete supersti- 
tion, but that it is, and always will be, the glory and the crown of 
true manhood. And that belief lives here still. 

This marked continuity of character will, no doubt, here long- 
survive. Men die, but institutions live. There is no way in which 
one can so surely secure a post-mortem influence as by founding an 
institution. Years hence, when not one of the early members of this 
society shall remain, it will hand down this spirit, this influence, to 
coming time. There is not a drop in the Merrimack River which 
was in it a year ago, but it is the same pure, cheerful, and useful 



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current now that it was then, and it will be the same Merrimack 
River for ages to come. 

Founded by such men, with such designs, with a force of purpose 
which has come down to this day, it is a matter of just satisfaction 
to look back and see what this parish was in the early stages of its 
history. As it had among its supporters several of the agents of 
the manufacturing corporations and their chief assistants, two or 
three judges, eight or ten lawyers, several of the leading physicians, 
many of the prominent men in financial and business circles, nearly 
two hundred of the most substantial families of the city, and having 
with its men of influence its full share of noble and saintly women, 
it is natural that a power went out from this parish that was widely 
felt. In claiming much for it, you Avili not forget what is due to 
other public-spirited and able parishes in this city, especially to that 
whose first and now venerable rector still survives. But you will 
not forget, also, that in this society originated the city public library, 
your beautiful cemetery, and the noble institution of the Ministry- 
at-large. In the year of my installation in Lowell, the city govern- 
ment was first organized. Wholly by accident, and not the least by 
design, the sole object being to select the best men of the city, it 
happened that the mayor, every one of the aldermen, the president 
of the common council, the city treasurer, the city clerk, and a large 
number of the common council, were taken from this society. I 
believe there has never been a time since when this society could 
not furnish a good entire city government. There is a utilitarian 
question which Yankees are apt to nsk, and which, amid all the 
felicitations of this occasion, thrusts itself upon us here: What is 
the net result of all its doings? It is easy to say that it has built 
an attractive church and a spacious vestry. It has kept up public 
worship half a century without fail. It has in all its history had a 
prosperous Sunday school. It has sent out, every year, little streams 
of beneficence for objects of charity and philanthropy. As near as 
I can compute the cost of all this, — it is an extempore estimate, 
but cannot be far out of the way, — this society has raised about 
two hundred thousand dollars. But there is a question deeper than 
all this, — What good has it done? 

Not long since I came into this church and sat dowm in a pew, 
and was here alone. I lifted up my eyes to its pillars and arches 
and dome. Not a vestige of anything that had been said or done 
within its walls remained. All was empty and silent. Not a word 



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of its prayers, not a note of its praises, lingered among its echoes. 
There was nothing more in the building than on the day of its 
completion. And yet I knew that earnest sermons had been here 
preached, and holy prayers been here uttered, and grateful anthems 
here sung, and memorials of a Saviour's dying love had been here 
spread. What has come of it all? Is this silent emptiness the only 
answer? 

We must go elsewhere to see the good it has done. We must 
follow the man of business who has here worshipped, in his daily 
walks, and see what reverence for principle has been here inspired. 
We must enter a hundred homes, to see what influence has gone out 
here to sweeten cares and help bear the burden of bereavement. 
We must measure the healthier tone of public feeling which from 
this centre has run through these streets and through all the busy 
transactions of this community. To countless homes in other cities, 
and in far Western States, we must go, where are remembered with 
peace and strength, holy truths taught in this Sunday school and 
proclaimed from this pulpit. We must think of many a sick and 
dying bed, to which a light and a hoye have come which have here 
been kindled. We must not forget souls in heaven, here first led to 
know a God whom they could love, and a Saviour whose message 
they could understand and welcome. These wide and precious 
influences, who of us can gather them all up, and weigh them, and 
certify to their value ? To-day we honor the founders of this soci- 
ety. But I think all its ministers have recollections of some more 
dear to them than its founders, of some who by their faith and piety 
justify those founders, and justify all that has here been expended. 

1 will say a closing word on some of my recollections. I remem- 
ber saintly souls to whom it was my privilege to minister in the 
last hours of their life. The thought of them, of what they owed 
to this church, covers it with a tenderness and a glory which it is 
mere mockery to attempt to measure by money, — the noble matron 
dying full of years and full of Christian graces ; the new-married wife 
bowing to her untimely departure with a sweetness of submission 
which nothing but a deep-felt faith could inspire ; the young man 
wasting away day by day in consumption, yet the inward man 
renewed as the outward man was perishing ; the sweet girl looking 
death in the face with no fear, and with a smile going to sleep in 
Jesus. These are no fancy sketches. They are among the dearest 
treasures of my memory, One day it may be seen, if we do not 



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see it now, that they, with like facts remembered by your other 
pastors, are an over-payment for all that has been here expended. 

May such over-payments fill the coming years, and extend to 
countless hearts the blessings of this society. And may this 
result be reached, not by living in the j)ast, not by reproducing 
the old, not by thinking that nothing more can be revealed, but 
by believing that God's infinite truth has unfoldings which we do 
not yet begin to comprehend, and has applications to life and 
society, to human progress and human destiny, which will become 
more and more apparent if we can keep an open eye and a prayer- 
ful mind. 



ADDRESSES 

AT THE 

CONCLUSION OF THE DINNER, 

IN JACKSON HALL, 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — I suppose th'at it would hardly be 
proper, in this presence, for a layman to preface the brief remarks 
he has to make on assuming the duties of the chair with a text, 
therefore I am inclined to tell a story. 

One pleasant evening, not many years ago, a small schooner was 
rounding Cape Ann with a gentle breeze. Besides the owner, who 
was in command, its crew consisted of one man, a recent importa- 
tion from the Emerald Isle, ignorant alike of the practice and 
science of navigation. The captain having become weary with 
constant and lengthened vigils, thought the time propitious for him 
to take some much-needed rest ; so placing the tiller in the hands 
of his companion, and pointing to a bright particular star visible 
just over the bows of the boat, he told him to " head her" for that, 
and then went below. For a while the skies were bright and all 
went well, but pretty soon a dense fog came up, completely envel- 
oping the craft, and shutting out all view of the heavens. During 
the darkness the vessel became completely turned around, so that 
when the fog lifted and the helmsman looked about for the luminary 
by which he was to steer, he discovered it shining brightly over the 
stern of his boat. For a moment he was at his wits' ends, but with 
that readiness which characterises an Hibernian, he soon determined 
what to do, and he called out lustily to the captain: "Captain! 
come up here and set me another star, I've gone by that one." 

And so it has seemed to me that the few devout and independent 
Christians who, just fifty years ago this very evening, assembled in 
the old stone-house on Pawtucket Street, to organize a new society 
and proclaim what was to most people then a new faith, felt that 
they had "gone by" the star which had been pointed out as their 



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guide in religious matters, and the time had come for them to seek 
a new one. Since astronomers tell us that it requires eighteen 
centuries for the first glimmer of light from some of these lumina- 
ries in the sky to reach the earth, we may well believe that the rays 
which they then saw for the first time, came down to them direct 
from the very beginning of the Christian Era. 

We feel that while this star of liberal Christianity has been like 
a beacon-light to guide us and our brethren in the faith in the path 
which we have followed, it has done much towards illuminating the 
course upon the broad ocean of religious life, which other Christians 
have pursued, who are seeking the same haven with ourselves. 
"May its light so continue to shine before men, that they may see 
your good works" in the future as they have seen them in the past. 

We may be excused, on an occasion like this, in giving expression 
to the pride which we all feel, in contemplating the history of the 
past fifty years, at the great blessings to the people of this city 
which have constantly flowed from our society. To enumerate 
even the most prominent of these would require me to depart from 
the simple duty I have been called upon to perform, which is to 
present to you a few of our friends who have kindly consented 
to speak to you this evening, to which duty I will now address 
myself. 

[Mr. Richardson, with a few appropriate remarks, introduced the ' 
several speakers of the evening, the first of whom was the second 
pastor of the society, Rev. Dr. Miles.] 



Dear Fbiends, — I thank you for this warm welcome, and for 
the pleasure of an occasion giving higher satisfaction to me, prob- 
ably, than to any other one now living. But one thought at 
present rises above any personal consideration. 

Standing at this interesting epoch in your history, it is natural 
to look to the confident expectation, fifty years ago, of great 
changes in the religious world around us, and to ask if those 
expectations have been fulfilled. It was then believed that 
societies of our name Avould be rapidly multiplied, and that they 
would soon compose the largest and most influential denomination 
in our land. But the fact in this city is a type of a general fact. 



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There is here only one society, nor all around us are there many 
more societies than there were half a century ago. 

You know the reason of this. The elements of our strength 
have been carefully studied by other denominations, and have been 
widely and wisely adopted. The toleration, the freedom, the 
charity, the philosophy of religion, the principles of interpretation, 
once advocated by a little struggling sect, have entered more or 
less into all sects ; and so it has happened that a large number of 
the Protestant pulpits of Xew England, of various names, essen- 
tially occupy the precise plane that our clerical fathers occupied 
when this society was founded. An apparent unfulfilment of 
hopes has come through a virtual triumph in another and a 
better way. 

We care for things and not for names. We like things so much 
that, it may be, they seem dearer under other names than those 
borne by us. We have reason to thank God and take courage. 
While we look with sincere affection to generous minds in all 
denominations, we will also look up, reverently and prayerfully, 
to yet higher reaches of religious truth; and so may our successors, 
fifty years hence, see as much progress in the epoch they will 
survey, as we may discern in the half-century that has gone. 



attorns oi Ikon. 3E. H. Ifeoar, 

OF CONCORD, PRES. OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES. 

Mr. President and Friends, — The public relation which I 
regard with the most interest on the present occasion, is my con- 
nection with the First Parish of Concord; and it is as a member 
of that parish, your neighbor and friend, that I cannot feel like a 
stranger in joining in your festivities. This is strictly a domestic 
and family gathering; but the celebration of a birthday is always 
thought a suitable time to call friends and neighbors together to 
rejoice with you. I have listened, with an interest which I can 
hardly express, to the beautiful and touching discourses of this 
afternoon ; and the more so, that your whole history is within the 
period of my memory, and the name of every one of your list of 
worthies is of a man whom I have known. 

The story of a parish in such a city as Lowell differs in many 
respects from that of one in a New England country town. Thus, 



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when I heard the list of the seven pastors who have served you 
in these fifty years, I remembered that the minister of Concord 
in my youth and early manhood, was our minister for sixty-three 
years; his single term of service considerably exceeding that of 
all the seven. And then the thought occurred concerning these 
founders of yours, that there was not a single Lowell man among 
them ! What made Lowell, in fact, was a collection of respectable 
men from other places. You are all modern, and the generation 
that is nearly gone must be wholly passed away, before you can 
feel that you have an ancestry behind you. 

But the men who founded Lowell, so many of whom took part 
in the establishment of this religious society, were men of such 
wisdom, sagacity, and foresight, as have been rarely seen in the 
founding of other manufacturing communities. Their views were 
not limited to making all the profit they could from the labor of 
their operatives. They recognized higher obligations to their 
fellow-men than money-making. A provision for the establishment 
of churches, and for the means of education, was made when the 
factories were founded; and to create an orderly, virtuous, and 
happy community was as much their object as to secure a 
prosperous business. I think they impressed their type of char- 
acter upon your city, and that Lowell has never lost this distinction 
among our manufacturing places. 

It is true there has been a great change in your population, and 
it could not be expected that foreign elements in our society would 
at once acquire all that was valuable in the native element; but 
the mold in which your fortunes were cast made a permanent 
impression, and is felt by every addition to the original mass. 
America is a country of enormous digestion ; and with such a 
start as this community had, a large amount of imported material 
can be safely absorbed and assimilated by it. 

As we look back to-night over the fifty years that have passed, 
the question comes : What influence for good has this parish 
exerted, and how have you upheld the standard which your fathers 
planted? I have but little sectarian feeling. I think among the 
good results of our late civil war, was its breaking down many 
of the barriers which theological controversies had made. Christian 
character and Christian sentiments have little to do with sects. In 
a conversation at Andover Theological Seminary, just reported in 
the newspapers, the remark is said to have been made, that "if 
Orthodoxy had been preached fifty years ago as it is to-day, there 



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would never have been any Unitarians." That may be so, — 
though you may notice that it is a two-edged statement, which 
may cut more than one way. But it is not principally progress as 
a denomination, whether by increasing your own numbers, or 
modifying the doctrines held by others, that gives you the best 
ground for congratulation and precious and happy memories on 
this occasion. It is the recollection of the place which this parish 
held in furnishing the pillars of society; in maintaining and 
diffusing integrity, generosity, and public spirit; in what it has 
done for the Channing Home, the Mechanics' Institute, the People's 
Club, the Miuistry-at-large to the poor; its relation to the charities, 
the public improvements, the education, refinement, moral eleva- 
tion, and the religious sentiment of this city, that now fills our 
hearts with devout gratitude. And claiming no undue distinction 
over others, remembering that modesty is a Christian virtue, you 
may well rejoice in a record so jDraise worthy in the past, and look 
forward hopefully to the future. 



[The President here referred to the enforced absence of Governor 
Talbot, and expressed his regret thereat, and then introduced the 
Rev. Smith Baker, pastor of the First Congregational Church 
(Orthodox), as the representative of the other churches of the city, 
all of whose pastors had been invited to be present, and several of 
Avhom were there.] 

Mr. President, — I regret very much that a convention now in 
session at my own church prevented my being present at the inter- 
esting historical services held this afternoon, and will also require 
that I shall be excused very early this evening. 

Our people remember with great pleasure the hearty and elo- 
quent words of your pastor at our semi-centennial a few years ago. 
I think I can appreciate the work which such a sketch, requiring so 
patient looking into records, has cost him.. I am convinced, how- 
ever, that few persons possess the higher qualifications for such a 
work ; and this reminds me of my first knowledge of your pastor. 
In his college days he had a chum from a most excellent family in a 
former parish of my own, and he was in the habit of making 



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frequent visits to his friend, for they were very intimate. There 
were, also, in the family, two very pleasing young ladies. (I do 
not wish to intimate anything that would cause a disturbance in 
this parish.) When I learned that you had given him a call to 
become your minister, I was quite curious to learn what my friends 
thought of him, and meeting one of these young ladies, I made 
some inquiries. Her prompt answer was: "He's a real manly 
fellow; a perfect encyclopedia of knowledge, a splendid conversa- 
tionalist, and good enough to be orthodox." Of course you have 
found him all that and more. 

Allusion has been made by the distinguished gentlemen who pre- 
ceeded me, to the change which has taken place in both Unitarian 
and Trinitarian Congregationalists. True, we are both Congrega- 
tionalists, and so far as the great principles of religious and 
political liberty are concerned, we are one. We, of the orthodox 
wing, are not willing to confess that we have changed in our doc- 
trines. We think we are as orthodox as ever. Though we are 
willing to confess that Unitarianism has learned us how better to 
put our orthodoxy, as sometimes it is with a father, who has been 
rigid though just, till his child has rebelled and gone out from him ; 
the very departure has softened and made gentle the father's stern- 
ness. So it may have been with us. 

While we differ in some things which seem very important to us, 
we have many things in common. We have a common interest in 
New England history; our fathers were the same. Her political 
supremacy of high-toned statesmanship is our common pride. Her 
exalted educational position, her schools, academies, and colleges 
are our common boast. Her broad, high level of general intelli- 
gence has been our common vindication ; and her leadership in the 
great battle of freedom, has been our common honor; for these 
things are the common fruit of New England Congregationalism, 
which our fathers founded upon these shores. 

There is also another common inheritance, which is a belief in 
the honest investigation of truth. John Robinson assured his 
people there was yet new revelation to come from God's Word. 
We both believe that. We both seek investigation. Whatever 
new light will destroy, let it be destroyed. We say, " If fair 
investigation can destroy orthodoxy, let it be destroyed," and 
you say, "Amen." You say, "If fair investigation can destroy 
Unitarianism, let it be destroyed," and we say, "Amen." And with 
all reverence we both say, "If fair investigation can destroy the 



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Bible, let it be destroyed." We believe whatever is truth will bear 
the lisrht, for it is of God and will stand, and whatever can be 
destroyed is not of God. Only the truth is of valne. May God 
help ns to see the trnth, and know its power in onr hearts, and 
reveal its beauty in onr lives. 

Again, thanking you in behalf of ray people for this kind recep- 
tion, and hoping that what I see in the gladness of this brilliant 
assembly may be emblematic of the continued peace which shall 
abide with you, I ask to be excused. 



OF CAMBRIDGE. 

I am the oldest living minister that preached to this society. It 
was in December, 1829, in the Free Chapel, a bitter cold day, but I 
foond warm hearts within. Mr. Barry followed me the next year, 
and was settled here. I was soon settled in Framingham, and he 
succeeded me also there. He was a true minister, earnest, pure? 
consecrated. Mr. Miles gave me, at Framingham, a labor of love 
before he came here. Mr. Wood, abont the same time, also oave 
me a labor of love. Sitting now. as I do, between them, I am in 
the atmosphere of love. And this is the position held always by 
your society. It has been always giving labors of love in this citv 
of Lowell, foremost in its charities, and on kindly terras with all 
the other societies in town. This is the office of our whole Unita- 
rian body. We have not always been compensated by crowded 
churches, or great progress in numbers. But we have gone on for 
these fifty years, as a religious body that has given "labors of 
love," softening and thus helping other sects, often without growth 
in our own congregations. 

I have watched, and felt an interest in, the progress of this soci- 
ety, its strong men and devoted women, and its constant influ- 
ence in this whole community. I shall still cherish the same 
interest in you and your pastor, whom I knew well, and esteemed, 
while I was on the visiting committee of the Divinity School. 
May you prosper, as in the past, so in the future. I leave you, 
in the words of the noble Paul, with the hope that, "whether I 
come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, 
that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together 
for the faith of the gospel." 



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OF BOSTON, SECRETARY OF TIIE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION. 

Mb. President and Brethren, — A friend by my side asks 
what special work the Unitarian -Association has at present in 
charge; and I reply, we are just now asking for funds. For this 
purpose, Lowell is a good place to come to. Our records show that 
this church has for many a year been conspicuous by the steadiness 
and the generosity of its giving. And for this, in the name of the 
Association, let me return our thanks. 

Your history of fifty years, told in a manner so genial and appre- 
ciative, suggests the pleasant reflection for one's moods and moments 
of discouragement, that, if he but prove faithful, some friendly 
chronicler of the coining time will take him at his best, and report 
his work as not wholly in vain. The eloquent words of Dr. Miles 
also suggested the thought, that he could not have preached so well 
in the old days when he was minister in Lowell, or this church 
never would have let him go. It must have been his experience as 
secretary of the American Unitarian Association that brought out 
his latent abilities; and it is encouraging to know that secretaries 
of the association grow eloquent by the time they are seventy. 

Your history has had special interest for me, in the fact that I 
started with you upon my own career. I do not distinctly recollect 
the time ; but if my friends tell me truly, when your church was 
born I was just trying to get out of my cradle, to establish my 
footing on this planet in order to walk erect and go alone. Not 
long since, a gentleman of high rank in the public life of the nation, 
after declaring that he no longer held the religious creed of his 
boyhood, but feels troubled with doubts and questions that he 
cannot wholly answer, said to me, "I would willingly sign a check 
for half of all my worldly fortune, if I could go back to my unques- 
tioning faith of twenty years ago." "You amaze me," I replied; 
" it is indeed hard work to walk erect, but it is the glory of a man 
to do it. Now that you are coming to the stature of an intelligent 
manhood, surely you would not wish your church to replace you in 
the cradle to be rocked to sleep." This church welcomes the* 
responsibilities and the perplexities of intelligent thought, and has 
no desire to go back to its own childhood, or into any cradle of an 
unquestioning creed. 

The interesting story of to-day is a valuable testimony to the 
worth of this church in the life of your busy city. Amid your 



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million wheels and spindles, I can imagine some utilitarian materi- 
alist declaring the church an impractical and worthless institution. 
So would he also probably deem the White Hills of New Hampshire 
a useless waste, compared with the valuable land by the side of your 
magnificent water-power. But when, last summer, I was at the con- 
ference at Weirs Landing, I said to a civil engineer who was present, 
"Would it not be a happy thought to tap Lake Winnipesaukee and 
supply Boston with an abundance of fresh, pure water?" "Ah," 
replied he, " this lake already belongs to the city of Lowell. It is 
the reservoir of her splendid water-power." Then I saw that the 
secret fountain of your enterprise and prosperity lay in the lofty 
hills that lift their heads to heaven and catch the moisture from the 
skies. So amid the many enterprises that build up the civilization 
of this city, and our beloved commonwealth, t'he Church is a foun- 
tain of spiritual life and power without which all the rest would 
perish. 

[Mr. Shippen continued with a brief plea for more religion and 
conscience to wield the mighty material forces of our time, without 
which, indeed, our looms are but weaving fine fabrics for shrouds 
to bury our better life. And he urged that this church continue 
faithful to its traditions, in a generous helpfulness to publish abroad 
the pure gospel of Jesus Christ, and to reinforce the spiritual life 
of the city, the State, and the nation.] 



OF BOSTOX. 

Mb. President, — I well remember, sir, the occasion to which 
you allude, although it occurred nearly forty-three years ago. It 
was the first ecclesiastical honor I ever received. I brought, in 
Dr. Walker, — that great preacher, then in his prime. — my welcome 
with me. I took but a silent part in the council convened for the 
installation of that young minister, Rev. Henry A. Miles, but I was 
an attentive listener to the proceedings, and saw everything done 
right. I remember the exercises in the church; how I carefully 
watched the delivery of the sermon by my pastor, taking, on that 
account, a special pride and pleasure in listening to every word. 
Nor do I forget the hospitable dinner given to the Council at the 
hotel opposite. 



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I had something to do with the fate of your society, later. Thirty- 
three years after the installation of your second minister, I joined 
in the invitation extended to your fifth to become the pastor of 
Harvard church, as the second successor of Dr. Walker. How 
little we can tell what may be before us! Perhaps, if my brother 
Grinnell had remained by the peaceful bosom of the Merrimack, 
and had not been lured to settle by the swelling tides of the Mystic 
and of the Charles, he might have clung to the ministry, and by 
this time, as a doctor of divinity, he might have continued to 
preach here and elsewhere to the edification of the churches. 

But what the ministry lost by brother Grinnell's retirement, the 
law has gained. The ministry cannot include among its members 
all the salt of the earth ; the law claims its portion, and other avo- 
cations, theirs. Reference has been made to the distinguished 
lawyers who were formerly devoted members of this society ; 
among them Judge Ames, and my classmate, Judge Hopkinson. I 
take it, this is the experience of nearly all churches of all denomi- 
nations ; almost every one can boast of the support given to it by 
one or more good lawyers. So in the time of our Saviour, it was a 
certain lawyer who drew from him one of the finest parables that 
came from his lips. Wishing to test or prove the Saviour, he asked 
him, "Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" You can see 
the lawyer in the question. He had probably made a great many 
wills, and assisted in breaking wills made by others. He had seen 
how clients contended about their earthly inheritances. He was 
anxious to secure for himself the everlasting inheritance. The 
Master replied by referring him to the law, and asked, "How read- 
estthou?" The lawyer, with professional skill, gave a brief sum- 
mary of the Decalogue and the whole Mosaic law, by resolving the 
whole duty of man under it into the supreme love of God and the 
love of one's neighbor as one's self. The Master, approving his 
reply, promised him the eternal inheritance on those conditions. 
Then the lawyer put the crucial question, "Who is ray neighbor ?" 
and the Master answered him by relating to him, for the instruction 
of mankind, the model parable of the Good Samaritan. 

But, to return to our own time and our denomination, let me say, 
I can just remember the separation of the two branches of the Con- 
gregational order, and the bitterness of the controversy which 
ensued. My parents, though adhering to the Orthodox side, were 
opposed to the enforced separation. My father often invited Dr. 
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to Commencement, and at other times. They would ride together, 
and he, as a magistrate, could keep the peace between them. If 
the old Congregational house had not been divided against itself; 
if it could have held together, standing on Christian charity and 
toleration, it would have been a stronger and a more efficient body, 
shedding an undiminished light upon the land. 

The older I grow, the more attached I become to the simplicity 
and unity of our faith. It seems to me to be the primitive faith of 
the fathers, founded upon the four Gospels, without a single one of 
the long creeds and metaphysical dogmas which in the long ages 
have been superadded. When the afflicted applied to our Saviour 
to work a cure upon them, or upon some one dear to them, he asked 
if they believed ; and by belief he clearly meant only a sincere 
acknowledgment that he was the Christ, and that his teachings 
were by divine authority. And this is our Christian faith to-day, — 
unadulterated, pure and simple. It was sufficient to satisfy our 
Saviour. We may believe it is sufficient to satisfy his Father and 
our Father. 



OF LOWELL. 

Tell me, pray, why commemorate this day? 
Is it because the swift years speed away? 
Why, Mau has babbled since he first had speech 
Of that dark Angel, whom uo prayers can reach — 
No tears can stay — Time, in his dreadful wrath 
O'er Man and all his works, hath made his path : 
Did he not drag him from his heavenly place, 
The curse, Mortality, stamped on his face? 

Yet somehow, after lapse of humdrum years, 
Marked but by petty joys, or petty fears, 
The commonplaces make a total grand, 
As some event that saves, or wrecks, a laud. 
We hear a challenge — like a trumpet's blare — 
King out a sharp, imperious, " Who goes there?" 
And to an unseen sentry we relate 
Our humble story up, or clown, to date. 

Thus we have met to talk about a Church, 
That did not for too high a mission search : 



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But, planted 'mid the sons of daily toil, 

Labored to soothe and soften life's turmoil. 

And, Truth ! she shrank not from thy form, 

Though armed with Death and throned upon the storm. 

To purify, to strengthen, and to cheer, — 

These were the objects that this Church held clear. 

No specious arts were used to fill the pews, 

No tricks or wiles to cozen or amuse ; 

The creed was brief, and all its meanings plain, 

Nor did it after ponderous mysteries strain : 

With countless tenets Faith it did not flood, 

Nor make the Christian thirst for Christian blood. 

Good- will to men, and with the will, the deed — 

Trust in a Father's love — there 's all the creed ; 

Not with your lips, but in your lives, you prove 

That you are servants of a God of love. 

Lessons were failures, if the lessons taught, 

No gracious influence on the conduct wrought. 

Faith leaned, at first, on Reason's mighty strength; 

But that strength failed, and so sweet Faith at length, 

When ways grew dark, led her companion on, 

And ever through the gloom her bright face shone. 

But I must pause — and straight invoke a Muse, 

To seem a poet, I dare not refuse 

To use the poet's fashion, and ask aid 

Of some kind genius, or celestial maid. 

Ah, here 's the river ! — none a Muse shall lack 

Who dwells along thy shore, sweet Merrimack! 

Hunt's Falls — I wish I knew thy Indian name — 

For such wild waters ours is very tame — 

I mark thy stream, where Dracut's wooded height 

Rises, with proud October's glories bright ; 

Yon wooded isles, — I see the waving trees, 

And hear their murmurs borne on every breeze. 

Oh, bring, bright river, from yon snowy hills, 

The gentle music of thy thousand rills ; 

There's poetry in every ripple — yes, 

The stream that turns the factory- wheel may bless 

The saddened heart of many a lonely girl, 

Her cheerless toil pursuing in the whirl. 

Then softly flow, and, rising from thy flood, 

Let deep-toned harmonies fill vale and wood, 

And, mingling with this graceless song of mine, 

Give just a hint of melody divine. 

'T is well, perhaps, that I should something say 
About the temple where you meet to pray. 



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A gray old pile, with ivy overgrown, 

An air of by-gone clays on every stone: 

Rich, pictured windows, where some grim old saint 

Scowls at the sunbeam peeping through his paint ; 

A bran-new Reredos, made to look as though 

Some monk had wrought it centuries ago ; 

Memorial tablets, showing how the rich 

May put a scoundrel in a saintly niche. — 

Those upright slabs that downright stories tell, 

How this man went to heaven, who went — oh, well — 

No matter — Bequiescat, anyway, 

But blest or not, we 're blest if we can say. 

A bell, that gossip-like will wag its tongue, 

When one is married, or another hung ; 

Groined arches, sounding back the solemn strain 

Of Dies Irce wrung from hearts in pain ; 

Candles, gay altars, altar-cloths of gold, 

And all such potent aids to faith grow cold. 

For such a church as this, go look elsewhere, 

Ours is a very modest house of prayer. 

If tawdry splendor you desire to view, 

You may be gratified — disgusted, too. 

Go where the Back Bay's muddy waves once rolled, 

And see Byzantium's minarets of gold ; 

See risiog there in Architecture's spite, 

The New Old South bursts on the startled sight. 

Its fiery points, chaotic spires and towers, 

Flung up, or dropped, in mad volcanic showers. 

Look now, and mark, with gilded hooks and crooks, 

The mausoleum of stout Phillips Brooks ; 

The aching eye these splendors gazing o'er, 

Prays that the sea may claim his ancient shore. 

Oh, for one hour of old Atlantic's surge, 

To sweep away this brick and mortar splurge. 

Our church is like Mohammed's coffin fixed 

Somehow, somewhere, the Heavens and Earth betwixt, 

Or hung like Brunelleschi's dome, in air, 

Roofless and baseless — and the walls are bare ; 

Below, the eager tradesman bows and grins : 

Who knows just where the House of God begins? 

Ah ! though our mansion 's in, or near, the skies, 

Our title's not so clear to careful eyes ; 

But rights we have in that brick building there, 

And Hosford 's bound to keep it in repair. 

Shall I tell off the head-roll of our saints, 

Men whose pure lives seemed free from mortal taints? 



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No ! should I call these good men from the tomb, 
The world would cry, "Some politician's boom!" 
Let their bright names illuminate our hearts, 
But spare them from the vulgar's envious darts; 
Rascals may buy false praises without stint, 
But good men seek not to appear in print. 
Let fools and knaves exult iu purchased fame, 
But why should we such doubtful honors claim? 

There are too many churches — where 's the sense, 

Or piety, in all this vain pretence? 

What empty pews — what pastors poorly paid? 

Why should the pew-rent be so long delayed? 

These tabernacles arc but homes of debt, 

And bankrupts in their bankrupt churches fret: 

God asks no borrowed temples — how can you 

Discourse, good parson, on the maxim true, 

"Owe no man anything" — when each one knows 

The church's creditor will soon foreclose? 

My friends, why are these sanctuaries built? 

To lead to virtue and to cleanse from guilt? 

Oh, no! for see, in this degraded age, 

The pulpit 's turned into a vaudeville stage ! 

Weak natures madly love, or madly hate, 

They know no midway, reasonable state; 

Excitement they must have, but when and where 

Their pastor, cracked or selfish, must declare. 

Of all the knaves that do the world befog. 

The vilest is the pulpit demagogue. 

Well, let us pause, it takes too long to tell 

The story through, and we must say farewell. 

Young Church ! with all thy fifty years, still youn^ 
Long as pure prayers are said, or sweet hymns sun 
Thy work continue, and the world still bless 
With the clear radiance of thy righteousness ; 
Uplift men's hearts and purify their lives — 
For 't is the only way Religion thrives ; 
And this great truth let all thy history tell : 
Who serves mankind doth serve his Maker well. 



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OF BOSTON. 

Let me drop all formal address, and speak to you as friend to 
friends. Reminiscences are the order of the hour. Sitting here 
to-nia'ht, picture after picture of the past has been presenting itself 
to my mental vision. 

I recall, as one conspicuous feature of the congregation to which 
I first spoke from your pulpit twenty-three years ago. the number 
of gray heads so prominent as to attract instant attention, and 
make a vivid impression upon him who stood before them. They 
marked men of trust and responsibility in the community ; men 
who faithfully met their responsibility, and justified the trust 
reposed in them. One by one they have passed away. Of them, 
in appearance, though not exactly in years, was one* whose prema- 
turely whitened locks caused him, in maturity and even in his early 
life, to be often addressed by his associates in church and court, as 
M our venerable friend," and who remains to assist in calling this 
anniversary gathering, and to participate in its festivities. Among 
the pleasures of the hour, not the least is that of renewing my old 
familiar intercourse with him. 

Offsetting this, comes up the remembrance of the young people. 
I see again the long, low, narrow vestry, predecessor of your 
present commodious and attractive rooms. I see it crowded 
with the bright and happy children, whom it was my pleasure, 
not only as pastor, but also as superintendent, to meet from week to 
week, and who were evidently well pleased to be thus met. They 
have grown up to manhood and womanhood now. With some of 
them I have exchanged cordial greetings in the social hour just 
j>assed, and the name of onct appears upon the card of invitation 
that brings me here to-day. 

Before me again appear that score of earnest and devoted 
teachers, young women mostly, with here and there a young 
man to keep them in countenance. Some of these have since 
entered into the closest of human relations, formed for themselves 
a home, gathered about them a family, and taken up the larger 
work of parental guidance. Some have passed on to the higher 
home, and to the dearer Parent. 

I recall, too, that Christmas eve and day in "61. when, with fes- 
tive gathering and religious service, we dedicated the new rooms! 



* Dea. J. A. Knowles. + Mr. Walter U. Lawson. % The present vestry. 



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(long waited for, but come at last) to purposes of instruction and 
sociability, spiritual culture and practical work. Following in 
natural association, comes the succession of evening socials and 
Sunday-afternoon festivals, bringing together parents and children 
for the better realization of the purposes to which they had been 
devoted. 

The date just given reminds me of the experience through which 
we were then passing: that period of civil war of which your 
chairman has spoken. Nor has he spoken a whit too strongly of 
the patriotic spirit, the generous contributions, the self-sacrificing 
labors here exhibited through it all. These were, indeed, in no 
small measure, instigated and sustained by the religion here recog- 
nized; that religion of divine love, which leads always to the 
service of humanity, and which saw how humanity, as well as 
country, was to be served by the war's successful prosecution. 
Side by side with scenes outside the church, — streets blossom- 
ing with flags, troops borne swiftly away on flying trains, school- 
children learning the lesson of patriotism at the raising of the 
nation's flag, placed through their own contributions on their 
school-house, — were other scenes transpiring within its walls. 
Regular and special services, days of prayer and of thanksgiving, 
were pervaded by the purpose, and marked the progress of the 
conflict. Two of these scenes stand out very vividly. One was 
that early Sunday in the war's first year, when the church could 
not contain the crowds that flocked thither to join in service with 
the first volunteer company specially organized for the war, which 
was born almost at the very moment when the echo of the depart- 
ing steps of the immortal Sixth died away, and which bore the 
honored name* of our chairman to-night. The other was of later 
date: the thanksgiving to wbich we were summoned by President 
Lincoln in the midsummer of '63, whose service began with the 
singing of the "Star Spangled Banner," was continued with a 
chosen intermixture of religious and patriotic exercises, and when 
the benediction of the minister was supposed to have closed the 
service, the feet of the retiring congregation were suddenly stayed, 
as the sweet voice of the fair and favorite singerf broke forth with 
the " Battle Hymn of the Republic," thrilling every heart and 
bringing tears to the eyelids, as she gave stanzas after stanzas of 
the inspired song; while the choir, catching the spirit of song 



* Richardson Light Infantry. 



f Miss Fannie Reed. 



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and singer, rolled through the church the Hallelujah chorus that 
told how God and truth, union and freedom, were marching on. 

I turn to another remembrance. In that library and normal-class 
room, I see the ministers of other churches in the city gathered 
with me, arranging for those public services which we held together 
in the churches, for the promotion of the cause of temperance in 
special, and of the general moral welfare of the city. Was not 
this an affirmation by deed of our own strong conviction, that 
morality, in its deepest sense and largest application, — the morality, 
not of manners, but of righteousness, the morality of womanly 
purity and manly integrity, — is the crowning merit, the consum- 
mate flower and ripened fruit of true religion? In these meetings, 
private and public, was also found a practical illustration of the 
same cordial spirit which has had such grand expression from the 
lips of the minister of the First Congregational Church to-night. 
In me it confirmed other influences and strengthened existing ten- 
dencies towards that larger fellowship and sympathy, into which I 
find myself growing more and more, — the fellowship of all faiths 
and sympathy with every religion, the world over and all ages 
through. 

Pictures of the past crowd upon me. I but sketch these few 
among them, that you may know the past is not forgotten ; that 
the lines of connection which joined us then are not broken ; that 
over them still pass the communications of a living sympathy. 

I close with the wish, expressed not for myself alone, but for 
the continuous line of your ministers, that when, fifty years hence, 
this society shall keep its centennial anniversary, your children and 
our successors may enjoy as happy a reunion as have we to-day. 



■ I 

OF BOSTON. 

Mr. Chairman and Friends, — I thank you very much for your 
kind greeting. Nowadays it is more appropriate for me to be«;in 
with a story than with a text. I heard last summer a story of a 
little girl, who was saying her prayers, and finished them as fol- 
lows : " God bless mamma and papa, but don't bless nasty little 
Bessy." Her mother said that would not do; so the child con- 
tinued, "Well, then, do bless nasty little Bessy." This story 



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illustrates the relations of the different sects fifty years ago. 
Christians of one denomination would pray God to bless people 
of other denominations, but they were not much inclined to bless 
their neighbors themselves. They denied catholicity to each other; 
no sect relished catholicity for itself; and catholicity was conse- 
quently relegated to the skies. But year after year, truth .and 
justice have been coming down to men, and mercy has sat between 
them. To-day both Protestants and Catholics arc more catholic 
than any church lias ever been before. One of the most striking 
features of this celebration is the hearty good-will and genuine 
sympathy expressed by this church for the neighboring churches 
who have struggled with you for the past fifty years to give a 
sound character to this city, and the equally true friendship for 
you which has been so cordially expressed by the representative 
of those churches. This mutual good feeling is based upon the 
Avhole life of this city from its foundation ; and it will not die. 
Nor is it peculiar to this place. You share the spirit of the age. 
It is the spirit of inquiry, of sympathy, of toleration, and of 
mutual aid. Christendom is finding out that it cannot afford to 
be divided upon permanent lines. Divisions will not cease, but 
the lines of division are constantly changing. Your opponents of 
yesterday are with you to-day; and to-morrow you will be their 
adversaries upon some new issue. But so long as such inevitable 
changes are tempered with kindness and with serious efforts to 
appreciate the position of those who differ from us, we shall feel, 
and we shall have the best right to feel, that our hearts are at one, 
although our brains and our tongues cannot explain our union. If 
men love one another, it is not necessary for them to understand 
why they do so. The great, pure fact is what we want. Its ex- 
istence is more important for us than its inexplicable causes. 
Wonderful as is the doctrine of love, greater wonders and sweeter 
beauties are displayed in the glory of love itself. I congratulate 
yon, therefore, upon the charity which makes so large a part of 
the happiness of this festival. 

It is encouraging to every man who lives among you, to know 
that if he is sincere in seeking and telling the truth, and fair in his 
treatment of those who differ with him, he will certainly find a 
constituency made up of people who, notwithstanding conflicting 
opinions among themselves, will have one heart, and the single aim, 
to support him in doing good and in upholding the cause of truth 
and justice. 



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Your history of fifty years, recounting the many things done by 
all the parish working together, makes us feel the importance of 
your body as a whole, and the hope that springs from such union. 
It does not make us undervalue the work or the influence of any 
individual who has contributed to the good of your common life, 
but it impresses us with the great weight that is added to individ- 
ual influence when it is exerted in co-operation with sound institu- 
tions. It is thus that humility is exalted. He who is not too 
selfish to work with others, finds that the world welcomes a brother 
when he puts forth his hand, and honors him when he simply tries 
to do his duty. 

You will permit me to add, with reference to the change of 
profession, to which such generous references have been made, 
that if one tries to be thorough in his work, and sincere and fair 
in his dealings, it makes comparatively little difference to what 
profession he belongs. With reference to the profession of the 
law, I will cite the New Testament itself. The founder of Chris- 
tianity instructed his disciples to " Search the Scriptures," and you 
will remember that those Scriptures contain not only the Prophets, 
but the Law. It was the Law that made those Scriptures possible. 
It was the great Law-giver who led the Israelites to the land 
where their prophets could speak, and where the people could 
listen, and where the very children could obey the voice of con- 
science. 

I wish, also, to congratulate the parish upon having a pastor who 
is so learned in those mighty Scriptures. 

For myself, and I think I may say for all of my friends here, 
who have ever held this pastorate, we are grateful to such of you 
as, having more experience than ourselves, were patient under our 
shortcomings, and forbearing with our mistakes ; and to all of you 
who, notwithstanding our shortcomings and mistakes, encouraged 
whatever you found in us that was good, and helped us in every- 
thing useful which we tried to do. 



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EUmarfts of I^ntrg Uiattciiarti, 

OF WOKCESTER. 

Mr. President and Friends, — This is an absolute surprise. 
I had supposed that we who took part in the services at the church 
were to remain silent at the table. The first intimation that I was 
to speak reached me as you just spoke in introducing me. I must 
say, therefore, what comes to me at the moment. I shall, at least, 
speak from the heart. One advantage, also, I shall have. An ora- 
tor has left the fact on record, that when he had to make a speech, 
he could not sleep the night before for thinking on what he wanted 
to say ; nor the night after, because he kept thinking of what he 
might have said. I shall at least escape the orator's sleeplessness 
the night before my " speech." 

But what my brother Grinnell has just said, in his manly, sincere 
way, will give me inspiration. I can utter a long "Amen" to 
what he declared concerning this society. I came to you in 1871, 
from the " Great West," whither I had gone two years before, by 
advice of Robert Collyer and A. D. Mayo. In beautiful Brooklyn, 
I had grown weary of my charming Gothic church. I wanted to 
preach in a hall. I wanted to reach the people. One day Mr. 
Beecher met me on the street, and said, "1 hear your people are 
going to sell your church, Mr. Blanchard." "Yes," I said, "I want 
to go into a hall." "Don't you do it," he replied; "it will be a 
mistake. The American people do not wish to worship in a hall." 
I thought I knew better than he, and went to Indianapolis to 
preach in an elegant theatre. Certainly, I had large hearing, but it 
was by a crowd, and not by a congregation. Very soon I wearied 
of " a hall," — I longed for church, and congregation, and communion, 
and learned at last that I was a very foolish young man. So I came 
to this city. 

Preaching four Sundays, you were good enough to ask me to be 
your pastor. How glad I was to accept your hearty call ! How 
kind you all were! How my heart responds to-night to the memo- 
ries of those days ! I remember how I sat in your house, Mr. Chair- 
man, the first Sunday evening of my pastorate, — how I enjoyed 
one of the loveliest sunsets I ever saw, — how we talked together 
about plans for the future ! I love my beautiful city of Worcester; 
I love my dear parish there; but this parish of Lowell was so 
kind, the words and deeds were so generous, the co-operation was 
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will be dearest to me of those whom I have tried to serve as pastor. 
Sir, when I look into these faces to-night, and recall the past, with 
its tender memories of noble men and women; when I thought, in 
the church, this afternoon, as Dr. Miles was telling us of those who 
had passed away, of the dear young man whom I loved so well, 
and who went to heaven while I was here, — -when I recall others 
who have gone since I went away, and whom I have missed to-day, 
I think of Longfellow's words,— 

" The stranger at ray fireside cannot see 

The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; 
He but perceives what is, while unto me, 
All that has been is visible and clear." 

And so, dear friends, for all you have done for me and mine, I thank 
you from the very depths of my heart. 

You spoke, sir, of my work in establishing the Channing Frater- 
nity and the Holly Tree Inn. The success of these depended, not 
on me, but on the hearty co-operation of my good parishioners and 
friends. I wanted to prove by the Inn that such an institution 
could be supported without the sale of liquor. That point has been 
proved by the history of our Inn. You would all be pleased if I 
could tell you the story of its beginning. I remember well the first 
night we were ready for work. One of our noble young women left 
her fine house in order to break up the kindling-wood for the fire in 
our stove ;., another came from her fine house in order to wash the 
dishes. They did good service afterwards, and are still interested, 
though no longer living here, in the welfare of the Inn. Other friends 
were ready to make up a deficit, if a year's work should leave one; 
others were ready to aid in any way they could; but, to our surprise, 
the Inn paid its way from the start. 

Our Channing Fraternity has done good work. We gave fine 
music, readings, lectures, in our delightful vestry, to the large 
company w r ho came; and since I went away, it has sustained the 
excellent courses of lectures in Huntington Hall on Sunday 
evenings. 

But I must not go on at this late hour, although now I am on my 
feet and speaking, many thoughts are thronging to my mind. We 
are to look to the future, dear friends, as well as to the past. Our 
first pastor, Dr. Miles, has nobly told us to do that. You have a 
right to be proud of your record, but you are to aim for higher achieve- 
ments yet. Conspicuously do you stand among our churches as a 



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society which is strong by your appreciation of the noble service you 
can render in maintaining the worship of God, and by your interest 
in denominational affairs. All of your pastors have been greatly 
helped by this fact. Your present pastor, if he were to speak to- 
night, would agree to what his predecessors could say concerning 
this fidelity to church and denomination. In the intervals between 
your pastorates, you have been strong enough to can y on your church 
without a minister; and I feel that you deserve commendation for 
this steadfast purpose to help men by the Sunday services of the 
church, and by your constant generosity to the treasury of the Amer- 
ican Unitarian Association. Let this history of your society's life 
inspire you to nobler efforts, so that the fifty years to come shall 
write a nobler record still than is that of the fifty years which 
have passed away forever! 



OJ? SOMERVILLE. 

Mr. President, — Did I not suppose that there were very good 
reasons for my being heard at this time, I certainly would not, at 
this late hour of the evening, occupy any of the time of this inter- 
esting occasion. My residence in Lowell began, I think, in the 
autumn of 1842, and was continued for about three years. As 
I devoted that time to theological studies in this city,* under the 
direction of Rev. Dr. Miles, at that time the minister of this parish; 
as the services of my ordination were held in your place of worship ; 
these circumstances, together with the fact, that in the same con- 
secrated place I was united in marriage to one of Lowell's fair 
daughters, created in my history a combination of events which 
have exercised a very important influence upon my course in life. 
During the time that I was here, I occasionally acted as a visitor 
to the poor, under the direction of a benevolent organization at 
that time connected with this society, of which the late Mr. Miles 
was the honored president. After the Ministry-at-large was 
established, — and I think I may say, without fear of contradic- 
tion, that the establishment of this noble enterprise may be 
counted among the best of the many good things which this society 
has done in the course of its long and interesting history, — I 
became an active helper in some of its departments of Christian 
work. 



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Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity 
of renewing my acquaintance with you, whom I formerly knew as a 
student at Westford Academy; also, to meet your pastor, who, 
during two seasons of his connection with the Harvard Divinity 
School, was a very successful teacher of a class of young men con- 
nected with my chapel in Boston. I am sure that Mr. Seward will 
agree with me in the opinion, that the interest and time given to 
that service have proved to have been of great value to him in the 
larger field which he has since occupied. Let me close these brief 
remarks, by expressing the hope that this parish may be prospered 
in the future, as it has been in the past, in every good work it may 
seek to accomplish. 



OF PEPPERELL. 

[Mi*. Babbido-e was introduced ns the first war chaplain, who was 
with the old Sixth Regiment in the riot at Baltimore, as the oldest 
active clergyman in the North Middlesex Conference, as repre- 
senting the town in which the ancestors of Mr. Seward first settled 
on coming to this country, and as the present pastor of the church 
they then attended. Mr. Babbidge said, in substance] : — 

Mr. President, — The hour is so late, that sleeping is i*eally 
more in order than speaking. My pastorate covers nearly the 
whole period of the existence of your parish. I have been person- 
allv intimate with all its ministers and know a great deal of its his- 
tory. I have witnessed within this period great changes in religious 
thought, and I can congratulate you upon the stronger faith and 
broader hopes of the present day. Perhaps I should not have 
spoken at all, were it not that Pepperell is entitled to honorable 
mention, on this present occasion, for the reason that this town was 
once the home of the ancestors of your present pastor. And I am 
proud to quote Virgil's epitaph, in regard to him, "Mantua me gen- 
uit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc" etc. You must excuse the bad 
taste which applies an epitaph to a man so thoroughly alive as 
brother Seward. [He then related a few anecdotes respecting the 
difficulties encountered by himself and Mr. Seward in trying to 
ascertain, one day, in Pepperell, the site of the first dwelling of the 
Iatter's ancestors, in the middle of the last century.] 



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OF LOWELL. 

[Mr. Wood, on rising, said that he had been requested to speak 
on the subject of the Ministry-at-large. He could not, however, 
be prevailed on to say a word, considering the extreme lateness 
of the hour, but for two reasons, — one was that his remarks, as 
desired, were written, and litnited to eight minutes; the other, that 
the record of this Society's history would be incomplete without a 
synopsis added of its great work of charity.] 

May 21, 1843, several members of the Unitarian (then called the 
South Congregational) Society in Lowell, met in the vestry of 
their church to consider the subject of missions. The meeting re- 
sulted in a vote to form a missionary society. At a subsequent 
meeting, May 28, the society was organized, and regulations adopted, 
under the title of the Unitarian Missionary Society. At the annual 
meeting of the society, held on Sunday evening, June 2, 1844, it was 
suggested by J. G. Carney, secretary, in a report on the doings of 
the year, that the funds, which had been mostly spent in aid of 
missions at the West, should, for the future, be expended mainly at 
home, in our city, among the poor. The proposition was received 
with hearty approbation. It was at once resolved to establish a 
Ministry-at-large. The name Unitarian was dropped from the title 
of the society. The society, with all its funds, took the field of the 
city outside of the churches, among the poor and the poorest, for 
its ministrations of gospel truth and of gospel spirit in deeds of 
sympathy and charity. 

It started on its emphatically Christian career in thirteen weeks, 
on Sept. 1. But, without any fault of foresight or forethought 
on its own part, through the resignation of an initiated pastor, 
the beginning came to an immediate end. The society rallied 
vigorously, and commenced its operations anew on the 28th of 
October, 1844, with the co-operation of another minister. From 
the second beginning, the Christian work steadily developed itself 
"like a tree planted by the rivers of water." It soon became 
apparent that it was to have, what it was meant to have, an 
abiding existence. It took strong hold of the hearts of the people 
at once, and for aye. No matter what winds have blown adversely, 
shaking its roots, it has stood firm. No matter what cold has 
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It has thriven on nourishment drawn from this Congregational 
societv, and from the hearts and purses of members of other 
religious societies, readily helping to sustain and cheer onward 
the "going about to do good," and sowing the gospel seed by the 
wavside. And the wise and considerate manufacturing corporations 
of the city have contributed almost from the beginning to its 
support. Blessing from above has fallen upon its growth, as dew 
from heaven. The Ministry-at-large now stands as a permanent 
institution in Lowell, an indispensable benefit, enjoying the good- 
will of every inhabitant. 

"A tree is known by its fruit." The Ministry began its existence 
just thirty-five years ago, at a period of only eight years from the 
organization of the city, when the population was new, hetero- 
geneous, and without form ; when thousands of the poor and igno- 
rant, both native and foreign born, were crowding to this centre of 
manufacturing enterprise. Among these, and a host of others 
following after, in the back streets and lanes of the city, in cheap 
tenements, cellars, and attics, the Ministry has borne an abundant 
crop, has done a large intertwined work of religion, education, and 
charity. A work of charity, in feeding the hungry, clothing the 
naked, finding employment for the idle, cheering the despondent, 
binding up the broken-hearted, ministering to the wants of the 
needy sick, comforting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, 
rescuing children from vagabondism and bad trainino- and initiating 
a House of Reformation for their restoration to the way in which 
they should go; giving youth a right direction in life, helping erring 
manhood to profit by experience, and supplying a staff to the aged 
to the end. By seeking the best methods and the highest abiding 
principles of charitable action, with an aim to cure poverty as far 
as practicable, and, above all, to prevent its recurrence, and the 
occurrence of impending poverty and suffering, by entering with 
detail into their causes, and by dwelling impressively upon the 
great cause of want and woe, it has, through annual reports, 
imbued the minds of the people, and of those in authority, 
effectively with the ideas born of the work. A work of edu- 
cation, in the early days of the city, taking many of the young 
by the hand into the schools, then advocating publicly and 
securing a permanent truant agency, and at once establishing, for 
the benefit of ignorant youths and adults at daily toil, evening- 
schools, carried on from 1845 to 1868. At the height of their 
usefulness, these schools contained 1,300 scholars, of all ages above 



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fifteen, and a corps of sixty volunteer teachers, with an aggregate, 
during twenty-four years, of at least twelve thousand pupils, — 
operatives, mechanics, day-laborers, and domestics. The schools 
were an indirect, but one of the best, preventives of a fall into 
poverty, and of becoming a prey to temptations, to idleness and 
sin. A work of religion, in preaching the simple, practical truth 
in a plain chapel to those brought in from neglected homes, and 
in those homes, often visited, weaving the gospel into the daily 
life of many trials and great moral exposure. In addition, with 
a helpful interest, broad as the suffering need and sinful life of 
fellow-beings in the city, visitation and care have been bestowed 
upon the inmates of the poor-farm and of the jail; and through 
the action of this ministry, a chaplaincy has been introduced into 
each, to comfort and to save. 

This has been the bearing of this tree of life, set by these waters. 
And the knowledge of its fruit has been seed for the uprising 
of benevolence within our borders and beyond them. Such has 
been the work done by the Ministry-at-large, — a work of religion, 
education, and charity; or in other words, of 'faith, hope, and 
charity, — a work done among the portion of our population most 
important to be considered in our deeds of love to man, most impor- 
tant in view of the destiny of the race, and of the future desired 
for the city. The work has been done without a selfish motive, 
or any party object, but from a wide, pure love to our neighbor, 
meriting success. If this society of Christians had sought honor, 
or a memorial of itself to pass on to the centennial of its existence, 
it could not have entered into a work more worthy. No church 
temple, not the most substantial and splendid cathedral that 
highest art could erect, would confer so much credit, or yield 
so much satisfaction to the spirits that God hath given. 



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OF LOWELL. 

[Rev. H. C. Duganne, Minister-at-large in Lowell ; Rev. George 
Bachellor, Secretary of the National Conference of Unitarian 
Churches ; HapgGod Wright, Esq., and E. B. Patch, Esq., were 
invited to deliver addresses at the dinner, but respectfully declined, 
owing to the lateness of the hour. Mr. Duganne had been asked 
to prepare his remarks in writing, with a view to their publication. 
Owing to the importance of his subject, and, with his consent, we 
give the address as he would have delivered it.] 

I have been invited to say a word about "The present working 
of the Ministry-at-large," and it must necessarily be but a word. 

The present operations of this Ministry are not essentially dif- 
ferent from that of the past already described, except that it has 
been somewhat enlarged and extended in the direction of its 
charity, while on the other hand its night schools, so long a 
prominent feature, have been turned over to the care of the city 
government, by which they are continued. 

The original purpose of a Ministry-at-large w T as to furnish all 
such as were, for various causes, outside of all other churches, 
with the free ministrations of the Gospel ; and while it still seeks 
to do this, providing a place of worship, with free seats and all 
the appliances of a regular pastorate, its charitable work has so 
increased in its many forms, as to throw its spiritual work quite 
into the background as seen by the public, and really to compel, 
somewhat, its neglect. 

The number of applications for aid has increased from a few 
hundred to over three thousand, and the money to be expended 
has increased in like proportion. By the will of the late Thomas 
Nesmith, Esq., $25,000 were left for the benefit of the temporary 
poor of Lowell, the income of which is $1,500 a year. Still later, 
by the bequest of the late Jonathan Tyler, Esq., the sum of $10,000 
was left for a like purpose. The income of these two sums is $2,100, 
which is disbursed, for the time being, through the agency of this 
Ministry. Besides this, there is a small income of $70 from a dona- 
tion by Dr. J. C. Dalton, to be applied for the benefit of those who 
worship at the chapel, another of $15 a year, left by Adin Hol- 
brook, Esq., and still another, of about $60, from $1,000 donated by 
Gen. J. C. Palfrey. The balance of the money — over $3,000 for 
charitable purposes, and $5,000 in all — is raised by donations, 
subscriptions, parties, etc., the several manufacturing corporations 
contributing $1,000 annually. 



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Its charitable assistance is extended to all in temporary need, 
who are found worthy, resident in the city, without regard to 
race, nationality, or religion. 

The legal name of this society has been changed from that of 
the Lowell Missionary Society to that by which it has been 
popularly known, — namely, " The Ministry-at-large in Lowell," — 
and it has been recently incorporated under this title, and is now 
ready to receive your bequests. 

Such, in brief, is the present status and working of the Ministry- 
at-large. 

aienetitctuw, fcg liefc- J- 2L Sctoarfc, 

OF LOWELL. 

May God, the Father Almighty, Creator of life and light, who 
has blessed our fathers and our parish, by the outpouring of His 
Holy Spirit, continue to aid our society in every good work and 
endeavor, by the influence of that same Spirit, through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. 

The following letter was received from the Kirk Street Society, 
through their pastor, Rev. C. £). Barrows. 

Lowell, Mass., Sept. 26, 1879. 
Bev. J. L. Seward, Pastor South Congregational Unitarian Church : 

My Dear Sir, — It would give me great pleasure to be present 
to-night at your gathering, in response to your kind invitation, but 
other engagements prevent my acceptance. It gives me real satis- 
faction to send you the greeting of the Kirk Street Church, as I am 
authorized to do by their vote to-night, and, with it, allow me to 
couple my personal endorsement, as their pastor. 

To the South Congregational Unitarian Church, of Lowell, — The 
Kirk Street Congregational Church, of Lowell, sends you greeting 
upon this your fiftieth anniversary, and assures you of her cordial 
remembrance. She extends to you the hand of love, and desires to 
place the gem of affectionate regard in this your coronal of re- 
joicing. She circles the Christian life, wherever found, with the 
Christian creed ; and she writes as the bond of union, to be kept 
alike by each, the ancient motto newly-born in this nineteenth 
century, " In things essential, unity ; in things unessential, liberty ; 
in all things, charity." 

Yours, with esteem, 

C. D. Barrows, 
Pastor Kirk St. Cong. Church. 



SERMON 

BY 

DELIVERED IN THE 

mnltuvxm Church, Eotocii, JVaJKLt 

Sunday Morning, Sept. 28, 1879, 

At the Request of the Pastor and Parish Committee. 
Printed by Order or the Committee. 



Isaiah, xliv, 7. — " The things that are coming," 

Your pastor has asked rae to preach the first sermon in this 
church, at the beginning of the second half-century of this society. 
I feel it to be a privilege and an honor to do this, and to have my 
name, which was connected with this church in its early days, not 
unknown to it as it enters upon another fifty years of its history. 

In selecting a subject for my discourse, I think I find one 
pertinent to this occasion in anticipating the changes in the 
religious world around us, which are likely to be brought about 
during the coming half-century. It needs no prophetic inspiration 
to foresee them. They are such as every thoughtful man may 
clearly discern. We have only to watch the turn of the tide and 
the set of the current. They give an aspect of deep interest to 
the ej30ch before you, and intimate results which are full of 
encouragement and hope. For this reason, I invite your attention 
for a few moments, while I attempt to name two or three of the 
things that are coming. 

Do I not name one which is obvious, and which will at once win 
your assent, when I say that the next fifty years will witness more 
unity of feeling among Christians of all denominations? How 
different is the tone of the religious world now from what it was 
when this society was formed! That was an era of controversy, 
and sometimes of fierce and bitter theological odium. Is Christ 
the Almighty God? Is man totally depraved? Did an innocent 
Saviour suffer the literal penalty of our sins? Does the training 
of a religious life demand, as the condition precedent, some 
miraculous conversion and regeneration? You know that these 
were the points about which men were then disputing, — pulpits 
against pulpits, books against books ; and often these strifes 
entered domestic circles, arraying brother against brother and 
wife against husband, and making, as in the early times of 
the Gospel, a man's foes to be those of his own household. 



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But what do we see at the present day? It is the rarest thing 
to find these points alluded to anywhere, in public sermons or 
private discussions. There is a growing distaste for such questions. 
To come across a sermon or a tract of half a century ago, stuffed 
full of controversy, awakens much the same surprise as does the 
sight of the bones of a monster that may have lived before the 
flood. Religion is looked at now in higher and more generous 
aspects. Doubtless there are narrow minds still bewildered and 
belligerent amid the old battle-cries. But the more enlightened of 
all names are to a great degree indifferent to them. What is false 
in these dogmas they would leave to die out in silence, just as 
witchcraft died out, and a belief in a personal Devil with horns 
and hoofs, died out. Go into the churches of all denominations, 
and what do you find the pulpits preaching about? They are 
addressing themselves to the devotional sentiments, or to the 
practical life. These sermons might be preached in the hearing 
of all sects, and each sect would welcome them as its own 
utterance. 

Look, also, to the preachers who are most popular, whose words 
go the deepest into the heart of this age. Are they those that 
expound a narrow creed ? They are those who plead for a kindly 
charity for all creeds. The broadest minds are the strongest 
minds. Ministers of religion who begin their professional life in 
an illiberal and exclusive spirit, are soon left like a ship that has 
run aground. The tide ebbs away from them. A more generous 
and loving spirit is in the common air of Christendom. It comes 
from a deeper comprehension of what the best spirit of religion 
is. It will become more and more apparent, just as fast as educa- 
tion and refinement are lifted to higher planes. 

It may seem to some to be impossible to cast the horoscope of 
the next fifty years. The future often discloses events which disap- 
point all human foresight. Our country may be the theatre of 
bloody wars of religion, — Deniers against Believers, Catholics 
against Protestants. But this is not the promise of to-day. Let 
us thank God for it. All the great spiritual forces of modern life 
are lifting men up to a more fraternal unity. What a joy to live 
in that better age of Christian love which seems to be coming! 
Those old distrusts and alienations ; that looking askance at each 
other, as if one was certainly on the road to destruction ; that 
absence of entire frankness and cordiality; that refusal to open 
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may be, — tell me, has not all this been a great drawback to the 
satisfactions of society and neighborhoods and families? Who of 
us does not know that there have been communities where the 
spirit of intolerance and bigotry has left influences as much to be 
dreaded as the malaria which breeds pestilence and death ? 

Who can tell how much this warfare of sect against sect has 
frittered away their power against their common enemies *? What 
form of crime, or selfishness, or wrong, could lift up its head 
against a united Christendom opposing it '? It is because Christians 
have been fighting one another, that they have not fought together 
against sin. Thousands in all churches are conscious of this, and 
are seeing the selfishness of a stiff stickling for merely logical con- 
clusions. Thev are turning to something in relio-ion, and something 
in the human heart, and something in the words of Jesus, higher 
than all our logic. "Now are ye my disciples, if ye love one 
another." And an era of more unity of heart among Christians 
of all names is one of the things which we may hope is coming 
during the next fifty years. 

Another thing which I think is coming is a sincerer religious 
belief. You may tell me that you see no signs of that. You may 
even think that unbelief is gaining ground every day. You may 
point to the breaking up of large sects, the pulverizing of old 
creeds, the spirit of doubt and denial which seems to be growing 
in the public mind, leading it to question what it never did 
question before, and to set aside what it was formerly thought 
impious to reject. With such facts before us, you may ask, how 
can we detect any tokens of a coming sincerer belief ? 

Everything depends upon how we interpret these facts, and 
upon what, at the bottom, they really signify. The human mind 
at the present day is casting off a monstrous load of make-beliefs ; 
and the part thrown away seems to our eyes so large, that we 
underrate the amount and the value of what is left. We are 
like men who have got hold of a jar containing counterfeit coins, 
from which so many pieces are rejected as worthless, that the first 
impression is that the whole is good for nothing. But soon a 
second sober-thought tests piece by piece, and some of these coins 
are found to be of pure gold. We are in time coining to that 
second sober-thought, and to value what has the ring and purity 
of the true metal, 

It is very true that men used to say they believed many more 
things than they believe now. But what men say they believe, 



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and what they really do believe, are two different things. Make- 
belief consists in assenting to what others tell you to assent to ; 
real belief consists in a conviction produced by evidence. Every- 
body knows that in former generations there has been a vast deal 
of this uninquiring assent. But this does not prove that there 
was much sincere conviction even then. It favored a great show 
of religion by formality, sometimes not without hypocrisy. But 
who will undertake to say that this attempt to strip off mere out- 
side appearances, and to avow only what is supported by good 
and substantial reason; — who will say that this is unfriendly to 
sincerity? 

Quite on the other hand, this is the very first condition of sin- 
cerity. Depend upon it, it is because men are coming to be sincere 
that they reject much that has hitherto been accepted. It is 
because men are coming to be sincere, that they cannot bear to 
live amid shows and shams. It is because men are coming to be 
sincere, that these large sects are everywhere breaking up, and the 
shells of these old creeds are cracking in pieces. 

We shall see some proof of this, if we consider what the real 
character of the unbelief of our age is. I do not refer to ignorant 
men, who may circulate cheap skeptical publications, and have their 
secret conventicles, where they may laugh at all religion. In the 
lowest depths of society there have always been such classes, and 
,1 suppose there are still. But I think they are now fewer than 
ever before. And I think so because there is less motive for their 
existence. Everything now is open, and free-spoken, and comes 
to the surface, and may work in public, and has no reason to work 
in darkness and underground. But I do not refer to this class of 
persons at all. They can do nothing to shape the course of 
thought, or turn the destinies of an age one way or the other. 
Let us pass them by. 

I speak now of the unbelief of thinking men, of men of 
information and character, good and able men, scattered in all 
respectable circles of society, whose opinions, if they never reach 
any organization, give a certain type to the character of our age. 
And what I say of them is, that their unbelief is of a kind which 
has never before been seen. 

It is as different from the spirit of the English deists and the 
French skeptics of the last century, as light is from darkness. It 
has no taint of sneer and scorn. It regards religion as a subject 
too serious and too holy, either to be ridiculed on the one hand, or 



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to be hypocritically professed on the other hand. It feels that it 
has been imposed upon by sheer falsehoods proclaimed as divine 
truths. It is to a great degree a reaction against unreasonable and 
extravagant opinions. It revolts at the idea of seeming to profess 
what it does not really think. It is suspicious of the prepossessions 
of its training, and opens its ear to what can be said on the other 
side. It is disgusted with men who speak so confidently about 
God and a future life, as if they had been miraculously illumined, 
and knew all mysteries, — they whose opinions on any other subject 
would not be worth a moment's consideration. And yet these 
unbelievers are not really satisfied with their own wavering con- 
dition. They would like to have the confidence of a more stable 
faith. They hope sometime to attain to it. But meanwhile they 
feel that they, must be true to their own sincere conviction, as 
indeed they ought to be. 

Such, in brief, is the character of a great deal of the unbelief of 
our times. What will you say about it? It is easy to call it infi- 
delity; but that word does not alter the thing. It is not the kind 
of infidelity of past generations. It is associated with many noble 
traits of character, — love of strict truth, absence of all affectation 
and pretence, determination to put the foot only on what is proved 
to be solid ground. In countless cases it is accompanied with a 
tenderness of conscience, a modesty, a delicacy, a reverence, not 
always seen in those who make more loud-mouthed professions/ 
And I repeat the question, What will you say about this sort of 
infidelity? 

Let me tell you plainly what I think about it, I think it is better 
than the belief of those who never doubt, never candidly inquire ; 
who know they are right and all others are wrong, and never 
hesitate to consign to destruction such as do not come up to their 
standard. I think this kind of unbelief is itself a religion. For 
it is not the possession of a certain amount of truth which is the 
important thing. If that were all, how easily God might give us 
any amount of demonstration, so that all doubt would be impossible ! 
But this would conflict with the very ]3urpose of life, which is 
to make us careful, inquiring, searching, honest, and sincere in our 
own minds. A doubt may have all this effect, just as truly as 
knowledge, and perhaps a great deal better.* Remember, I pray 



*"That religion is not intuitively true, but a matter of deduction and 
inference; that a conviction of its truth is not forced upon every one, but 

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you, that when Jesus was upon the earth, he found outside of the 
believers those who were dearest to his heart, — in the j^agan cen- 
turion, in the hated Samaritan, in the despised woman of Canaan. 
Who of us has not known those who are called unbelievers, of 
whom we have felt sure, when we have seen their truthfulness, 
their tenderness of conscience, their unwillingness to appear dif- 
ferent from what they are, their silence and awe before the great 
mysteries of life, that could Jesus now look on them, as he looked 
on the unbelieving young man, he would love them as he loved 
him, and say of them what he said of him, "Thou art not far from 
the kingdom of heaven." 

You will see, then, that I look upon the unbelief of this age with 
no fears. I recognize in it many noble qualities. It has elements 
of hope a thousand-fold better than the kind of assent which has 
hitherto, to a large extent, prevailed, and which in many pulpits 
continues to preach what is not sincerely believed. This so-called 
infidelity is intent upon throwing off all the outside shell and husk 
of religion, that it may penetrate to its very kernel. The whole 
world of mere make-beliefs may tremble before it, for it will in time 
ride over them all, and will finally settle down on what is trust- 
worthy and solid. Its real aim is not to throw off religion. We 
might as well talk about our throwing off our love of the beautiful, 
our sense of the right, our conception of the perfect. The stars 
will fall out from the vault of heaven as soon as these imperishable 
elements will fall out from the human soul. The age before us will 
seek the central substance of religion, apart from all the stupendous 
load of traditions. So it has been in unnumbered epochs of the 
world. The fading illusions of the past have been followed by 
fresh yearnings for higher truth. Here is another of the things 
that are coming, 

I must name one more, though it is too great a subject to be 
dismissed as the brief head of a sermon. I believe the next half- 
century will effect some change in our mode of public worship. 

The existing order of services, common in all non-liturgical 
churches, was adopted about three hundred and fifty years ago, 
and was doubtless well suited to that age. It gave great promi- 
nence to the sermon, at a time when the sermon was almost the 



left to be by some collected with heedful attention to premises, — all this as 
much constitutes religious probation, as much aftbrds sphere, scope, 
opportunity, for right and wrong- behavior, as anything whatever does." — 

Butler's Analogy. 



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83 



only way of communicating with the public mind. At present 
the sermon is only one way of reaching the public, and, speaking 
generally, it is one of the least efficient. The newspaper has taken 
its place, as have magazines, reviews, and books, and popular lec- 
tures, and addresses of multitudinous kinds. In many of our con- 
gregations, there are men of larger information than is the minister, 
and really more capable of offering instruction. So our sermons 
are to a large degree out of gear with the needs of this age. They 
are an antiquated form, as much so as an old Continental dress 
would be if worn in our streets. 

Nor is it the sermon alone which our times have to some extent 
outgrown. The prayers of the churches, both the extemporaneous 
and the liturgical, are framed on ancient models. They have bib- 
lical phrases founded on false views of God, and out of harmony 
with our science and popular knowledge. This gives them an 
unreal, spectral, ghostly air, and helps to alienate thousands from, 
public worship. 

It is true, pulpit orators of rare ability will draw crowds. They 
would draw them to any place as well as to churches. They draw 
them to churches in spite of these disinclinations to our forms of 
worship. But we must look to the common run of us ministers. 
I say nothing of your honored pastor, nor of your commendable 
habits of a general attendance upon his ministrations. But you 
know what the fact is throughout New England at large. The 
falling off of church attendance in recent years has been noticed by 
every one. It has been estimated that less than a sixth part of the 
population are church-goers, and the number of non-attendants is 
continually on the increase. Doubtless various causes have con- 
tributed to this, — such as the expense of pews, and the flaunting 
of social distinctions even in the house of worship. But the un- 
suitableness to our age of our mode of worship has also had large 
effect. To services less formal, less wearisome, less prosaic, less 
made up of cant phrases and empty platitudes, many would be 
attracted who now rarely go to church; and the necessity of some 
change must erelong- force itself on all minds. 

I look to the denomination of Christians to which we belong to 
begin this change. We are less tied down to routine, and feel less 
the j^ressure of the past. We are more open to improvements, and 
have a more electric affinity with new needs. The history of our 
denomination is to a great degree the history of the changes it has 
wrought in the forms of the popular religion. It has introduced a 



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freer criticism. It has modified creeds. It broke up the old scho- 
lastic style of sermonizing. It has made the discourse turn Jess 
on dogma and more on the practical life. It took the lead in 
shortening the public prayers, and in having but one sermon on 
Sunday. In brief, we are a more fluid people, and can run more 
easily in new channels. Hence, we can perhaps best meet the 
problem of the future, — how to make our church-worship more 
fresh, more attractive, more suited to the needs of our time, more; 
winning to those who would like to meet weekly their fellow-beings 
in freer relations of joint praise and adoration. Js not this change 
one of the things that are coming? 

I give you joy, my friends, upon the prospects which open before 
you as you enter upon the second half-century of your history. I 
shall see but Little of that history, and the most of those who are 
here to-day will not be among the living to celebrate the hundredth 
anniversary of this society. Great changes will be wrought mean- 
while; but, as J have said, J believe they are changes full of encour- 
agement and hope All Christians are moving on to have more 
love for one another, more sincere belief in the central substance 
of religion, and more attractive ways of expressing their common 
homage. 

Let us meet our fellow-Christians of all names in the spirit of a 
large and generous affection. Let us shun the contemptible nar- 
rowness of a petty and supercilious sect. In the ecclesiastical ship 
I suppose our denomination may he compared to tin; Hying jib, 
which is always a little in advance of the rest of the vessel, and is 
o) service in altering its course. But the jib, cut off from the 
ship, would be a sorry thing by itself, and a more sorry thing it 
would be if the jib should call itself the ship. It derives :ill its 
worth from its connection with tin.- noble Structure of which it 
forms a small part; and behind it are the capacious hold filled with 
its rich freight, and the towering sails ready to catch every breeze 
of heaven, and the precious souls in the cabin and in the forecastle. 
Let US think more of our tie to all this than of what we are apart 
by ourselves. So may you in love work with all who sail under 
the Christian flag, in the voyage of the next fifty years. 

May the Divine blessing ever rest upon this Church, which calls 
up to me many holy lessons, and many endeared memories. As 
long as these walls shall stand, m;jy this pulpit plead for liberty and 
holiness and love. May these pews be filled by those who shall 
adorn the doctrine of God and our Saviour in all things. May this 



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Sunday school train up successive generations in the nurture and 
admonition of the Lord. Standing here in the midst of these 
thronged streets, and in the centre of your scattered homes, may 
this house be no element of discord and strife, but be a voice plead- 
ing for Christian unity and love. May it make upright and noble 
men, and faithful and saintly women, and teach children to remem- 
ber their Creator in the days of their youth. May peace be within 
its gates, and prosperity within its walls. For my brethren and 
companions' sake I will now say, Peace be unto thee. 



I 



APPENDIX. 



I 



Officers of the Church 4xd List of Members. 



PASTORS. 

1. WILLIAM BARRY : born in Boston, Jan. 10, 1805 ; graduated at Brown University 
in 1822; graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1829; ordained in Lowell, Nov. 17, 1830 
(he preached his first sermon in Lowell, May 9, 1830) ; resigned, July 12, 1835. Settled sub- 
sequently in Framingham and over the Lee'Street Unitarian Church in LoAvell; was three 
times in "Europe; President of the Chicago Historical society; resides in Chicago. 

2. HENRY ADOLPHUS MILES; born in Grafton, May 30, 1809; graduated at 
Brown Universitv in 1829; graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1832; ordained in 
Halb<well, Me., Dec. 19, 1832; installed in Lowell, Dec. 14, 1836; received the degree of 
"D. D." from Brown University in 1850; resigned the Lowell charge, May 30, 1853; 1853 to 
1859, Secretary of the American Unitarian Association; has travelled extensively in Eu- 
rope; 1865 to 1871, pastor of Christ Church, Longwood; in 1876, settled over New North 
Church, in Hingham, where he still resides. 

3. THEODORE TEBBETS ; born in Parsonsfield, Me.. April 1, 1831; graduated at 
Phillips Exeter Academy in 1848; graduated at Harvard University in 1851; was a teacher 
in Phillips Exeter Academy in 1852; graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1855; or- 
dained in Lowell, Sept. 19," 1855: resigned May 1, 1856 (on account of ill health, having 
preached but twice) ; installed at Medfnrd, April 15, 1857; resigned July 29, 1859, owing to 
continued ill health; died in Medford, Jau. 29, 1863. His widow married George S. Hale, 
Esq., of Boston. 

4. FREDERICK HINCKLEY; born in Boston, Nov. 3, 1820; graduated at Harvard 
Divinitv School in 1843; ordained at Windsor, Vt., Dec. 13, 1843; subsequently settled in 
Norton and Haverhill, Mass., and Hartford, Ct. ; installed at Lowell, Nov. 12, 1856; left, 
Lowell Oct. 18, 1864; alterwards preached in Boston and Washington, D. C; resides in 
Dorchester. 

5. CHARLES EDWARD GRINNELL; born in Baltimore, Md., May 7, 1S41 ; graduated 
at Harvard University in 1862; graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1865; travelled in 
Europe; ordained in Lowell, Feb. 19, 1867; resigned Oct. 20", 1869; installed at Charles- 
town, Nov. 10, 1869 ; resigned in 1873 ; retired from the ministry in 1874; graduated at Har- 
vard Law School in 1876; admitted to the bar Nov. 28, 1876; is a Master in Chancery for 
Suffolk County ; resides in Boston. 

6. HENRY BLANCHARD: born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 13, 1833; graduated at 
Tufts College in 1859; ordained at the Universalist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1857; 
resigned January, 1869; preached at Unitarian Church, in Indianapolis, lnd., January, 
1869^ to December, 1870; installed in Lowell, Jan. 19, 1871: resigned April 14, 1873; settled 
in Worcester (Church of Unity), in 1873; in February, 1880, again entered the Universalist 
denomination, and settled at Boston (Shawmut Avenue Church), where he now resides. 

7. JOSIAH LAFAYETTE SEWARD: born in Sullivan, N. H., April 17, 1845; gradu- 
ated at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1864; graduated at Harvard University in 1868; gradu- 
ated at Harvard Divinity School in 1874, with the degree of "B. D."; ordained in Lowell, 
Dec. 31, 1874; the present pastor. 

DEACONS. 

Thomas Ordway, from Nov. 21, 1830, to Aug. 29, 1833; Eliab Richardson, from Nov. 
21, 1830, to .Sept. 23, 1832 : David Holmes, from Jan. 20, 1833, to Feb. 5, 1837; Thomas 
Ordway (second time), from Feb. 5, 1837, to Nov. 14,1859; Isaac Scripture, from Feb. 
5, 1837, to Aug. 9, 1852; John A. Kxowles, Feb. 5, 1837 {Serus in caelum redeat) ; Joel 
Adams, July 10, 1857 (moved to Chelmsford) ; Abner W: Buttrick, from July 10, 1857, to 
Dec. 4, 1863; Charles H. Wilder, from Feb. 5, 1864, to Mav 5, 1879. 



CLERKS. 

The Pastors have always acted as the Clerks of the Church, excepting from June 12, 
1857j to Dec. 7, 1860, when 'the office was filled by Dea. Abner W. Buttrick. 



11' 



90 



APPENDIX NO. ONE. 



MEMBERS. 



ORIGINAL SIGNERS OF THE COVENANT. 



Jerusha Ordway, 
Abigail Walker, 
Thomas Ordway, 
James G. Carney, 
Abraham Howe* 
Isaac Scripture, 
Matthias Parkhurst, 
Eliab Richardson, 
Elijah Breck, 
Abner Ball, 
Sarah D. Avery, 
John Avery, 



1*30. 



William Barry, 
George M. Whipple, 
Clarissa Carney, 
Anna W. Knowlton, 
Lucy Breck, 
Sally Howe, 
Lydia Scripture, 
Martha E. Bridge, 
Nancy Bridge, 
Anna* Bowers, 
John Bowers, 
John A. Knowles, 



1830. 



SUBSEQUENT MEMBERS — THOSE WITH A * COMING FROM OTHER CHURCHES. 
DURING 31 R. BARRY'S MINISTRY, INCLUDING ABOVE NAMES. 



25 Weld Spaulding, 

26 Sarah F. Ball, 

27 Theodore M. Koues, 

28 Harriet F. Spaulding, 

29 Elizabeth Baker, 

30 Elizabeth Davis,* 

31 David Dana, 

32 Daniel Cutting, 

33 Lydia H. Cutting, 
34= Sarah French, 

35 Dorcas Stearns, 

36 Emily Elliot, 

37 • Sarah Rowe, 

38 Elizabeth D. Dana, 

39 Margaret Winship, 

40 David Holmes * 

41 Elizabeth Holmes,* 

42 John C. Dal ton ,* 

43 Julia Ann Dalton * 

44 John Morrison, 

45 Susan Smith, 

46 Susan Dickinson, 

47 Pelham W. Warren,* 
4S Jeanette T. Warren,* 

49 Martha Mixer, 

50 Francis Hobbs,* 

51 Rebecca Hobbs,* 

52 Lydia Dana, 

53 Charles Lancaster, 

54 Mary Jane Lancaster, 

55 Rebecca W. Eastman, 

56 Catharine H. Plympton, 

57 Marv S. Barbour,* 

58 William Austin * 

59 Hepsy D. Austin,* 

60 Luke Eastman, 

61 Sylvanus Adams, 

62 Lucy Ann Morrison, 

63 Henry B. Stanton, 



Sept. 4, 1831. 



Sept. 17, 1831. 
Nov. 6, 1831. 



Jan. 1, 1832. 
March 4, 1832. 
Mav 6, 1832. 



Julv 1, 1832. 
Sept. 2, 1832. 
Nov. 4, 1832. 



Jan. 6, 1833. 



Feb. 3, 1833. 
March 3, 1833. 



April 7, 1833. 



Mav 5, 1833. 



Dix Fletcher, May 5, 1833. 

Louisa W. Fletcher, " 
Ann Howard, 
Matilda Wvman, 
Martha Hatch, 
Elizabeth Elliot * 
Mary Briard Apple ton,* 
Elvira W. Gawn, 
Mehitable Straw, 
Charlotte Edwards,* 
Elizabeth Munroe, 
Harriet Hopkins, 
Rebecca Mansur, 
Emily Morrison, 
Mary Labarte, 
Elizabeth Jewett, 
Josiah Bridge, 
Elizabeth Hagar, 
William Newman, 
Dolly A. Seaver, 
Catharine B. Folsom,* 
Mary Bradlev, Sr.* 
Marv Bradley, Jr ,* 
Elizabeth Bradley* 
Hannah Almira Bradley,* 
Sarah Ann Bradley,* 
Joanna Payson,* 
Alice N. Payson,* 
Frances Elizabeth Lewis, 
Frances G. Currier, 
Hannah S. Parkhurst, 
Joseph Locke,* 
Lydia Locke,* 
Harriet Locke,* 
John G. Locke,* Jul 
Elizabeth Willard Barry (Pastoi 

Church member; but did not 

covenant of this church. 



June 2, 1833. 
Nov. 3, 1S33. 

Feb. 2, 1334. 

May 4, 1834. 
June 1, 1834. 



July 6, 1834. 
Oct. 5, 1834. 
Nov. 2, 1834. 

Dec. 7, 1834. 

Jan. 14, 1835. 



Feb. 1, 1835. 



March 1, 1835. 
April 5, 1835. 



5, 1835. 
i wife), 
ign the 



DURING THE MINISTRY' OF DR. MILES. 



1 Henry A. Miles* July 2, 1837. 

2 Augusta H. Miles,* 

3 Danforth P. Brigham, 

4 Hannah W. Brigham, " 

5 Jane T. Robinson, " 

6 Susan Adams,* " 

7 Ann Maria A. Craves,* " 

8 Hazen Eliott, Aug. 6, 1837. 

9 Almira Eliott, ~ " 

10 Harriet Norton, " 

11 Stephen Dickinson, Jan. 8, 1838. 

12 Charlotte Eastman. July 1, 1838. 

13 Sophronia Johnson, " 



14 


Porter Kimball, 


Oct. 7, 


1838. 


15 


Eliza A. M. Kimball, 






16 


Sarah R. Waters, 


Dec. 2. 


1838. 


17 


Merilla Cushman, 


May 5, 


1839. 


18 


Lemuel Williams, 




19 


Laura Ann Kimball, 


May 1, 


1840. 


20 


Mary Davis, 


Oct. 23, 


1840. 


21 


Susan D. Bradstreet, 


.Mav 23, 


1841. 


22 


Mary Caldwell, 


June 3, 


1841. 


23 


Elizabeth Dana, 


July 1, 


184L 


24 


Anna Dana, 

Julia S. Richardson, 






25 






26 


Mehitable M. Platts, 


Sept. 5, 


1841. 



APPENDIX NO. ONE. 



91 



•27 Lydia Davton. Feb. 6, 1842. 

•28 Charles T*. Appleton, April 2, 1842. 

29 Abigail G. Wilder, 

30 Olivia P. Eastman, April 3, 1842. 

31 Thomas Railtou, April 6, 1842. 

32 Elizabeth C. Hodges, April 22, 1842, 

33 Albert Mallard, April 30, 1842. 

34 Daniel Knapp, " 

35 Mary Willard Dana, " 

36 Sarah A . Knowles,* " 

37 Mary A. Locke, " 

38 Hannah G. Locke, " 

39 Betsev Consens, " 

40 Joseph F. Trott, May 1, 1842. 

41 Eleanor C. Trott, 

42 Benjamin F. Aiken, May 30, 1842. 

43 Elizabeth Aiken, " " 

44 Sabrina Pntuam, June 4, 1S42. 

45 Susan P. Jones, " 

46 Eliza Ann Long, " 

47 Catharine H. Fiske, " 
4S Rebecca Morgan, " 

49 William F. Bridge, " 

50 Lucy Lawrence, Sept. 3, 1842. 

51 Harriet E. VVinnek, " 

52 Sarah A. Winnek, " 

53 Polly Holbrook, Oct. 2, 1842. 

54 Joel Adams, " 

55 Catharine Adams, " 

56 Francis Bush, Nov. 6, 1842. 

57 Jane Bush, " 

58 Isabella D. Wright, 

59 Abner W. Buttrick, " 

60 Ebenezer Osgood Fifleld, Jan. 1, 1843. 

61 Ann Fifleld, 

62 Martha Weeks Howe, Feb. 5, 1S43. 

63 Hannah Elizabeth Lyman, April 7, 1844. 



Sarah Jane Richardson,* April 7, 



1844. 
1844. 
1845. 
1848. 
1848. 



Olive G. Lewis, Nov. 3, 

Anne Roberts, Feb. 10 : 

Ann D. Rogers, Jan. 18, 

John Mixer, May 7, 

William Fiske, " 

Hapgood W right, " 

Charles B. Co burn, " 

John Nesmith, " 

Louisa W. Bradley, " 

Elizabeth Coburn," " 

Lucinda Whittier, " 

Harriet Nesmith, " 

Louisa Bradley, " 

Harriet Bradley, " 

Harriet Farley, " 

Mary Bent, * " 

Sabra Wright, June 4, 1848. 

Hannah H. Bennett, " 

Eliza Jane Butterfleld, " 

Nathan M. Wright, Nov. 5, 

Ephraim W. Young, March 4, 

Harriet C. N. Young, " 

William G. Baker, Nov. 4, 1849. 

Sarah Baker, " 

Mary H. Lyman, " 

Charles H. Barbour, Dec. 2, 

Warren H. Cudworth, Jan. 1, 
Mrs. Benjamin F. Yarnum. Jan. 2, 

Mrs. Joseph Butterfleld, " 

Sarah Bridge, " 
Charlotte Y. Kendall. 

Ingerborg J. Anderson, " 

Mary Eliza Adams, " 

Abba Smith, " 

Fanny R, Smith, " 



1848. 
1849. 



1849. 
1852. 
is;.::. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. TEBBETS. 



1 Theodore Tebbets ; 



Sept. 19, 1855. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. HINCKLEY. 



Frederic Hiucklev,* April 3, 1857 

Sarah A. Hinckley,* 
Josiah B. French^ 
Mary Anne French, 
Sarah Josephine French, 
John F. Kimball, 
Clara Kimball, 
Frances Ellen Lawson, 
Elizabeth T. Wright, 
Susan P. Wright, 
Sabra Wright, Jr., 
Lois R. Wright, 
Mary M. Wright, 
Eliza J. Nesmith, 
Harriet B. Nesmith, 
Mary F. Dana, 
Louisa W. F. Dana, 
James O. Scripture, 
Anna M. Harrington, May 1, 1857 



20 Isabella G. Harrington, 

21 Mary A. Knowles, 

22 Sarah Louise Knowles, 

23 Abby C. Burbank, 

24 Charles H. Wilder, 

25 Mary B. Wilder, 

26 Miranda W. Bradley, 

27 John Bowers,* 

28 Mrs. Tuckerman,* 

29 Charles H. Coburn, 

30 Elizabeth S. Manning, 

31 Ingerborg C. Erland, 

32 Nancy Manning, 

33 Jerome F. Manning, 

34 Mary Eliza Fellows, 

35 Mary A. Hews, 

36 Mrs. Catharine F. Lawson 

37 Martha M. Scripture, 



May 1, 1857 



June 5, 
July 3, 



Jan. 1, 
April 18, 

July 2, 
July 31, 

Sept. 4, 

Dec. 4, 

Sept. 30, 
April 3, 

,Apr. 18, 
Oct. 28, 



1857. 
1857. 



1858. 
1858. 
1858. 
1858. 
1858. 
1858. 

1859. 
1861. 
1862. 

lsi;;:. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. GRINNELE. 



Charles Edward Grinnell,* May 5, 1867. 
Elizabeth T. W. Grinnell* 
Harriet M. C. Bartlett, 
Axel T. Koch, . Nov. 3, 1867. 

Catharine Taggart, " 
Sumner Sargent,* Jan. 5, 1868. 

Mary Augusta Sargent,* " 
Melinda B. Yiney, " 
Evelyn Maria Hunt, " 
Eliza J. Burbeck, " 



11 Horace B. Coburn, Jan. 5, 1868. 

12 Anna Anderson, May 3, 1868. 

13 Julia Swift Bennett, 

14 Franklin Nickerson, " 

15 Marv Wallace Nickerson, " 

16 Adelia C. Sawyer, Jan 3, 1869. 

17 Helen W. Wright, 

18 C. Janet Wright Darracott, " 

19 Fanny Ames Scripture, " 

20 Rebecca Dana Bartlett, May 2, 1869. 



92 



APPENDIX NO. ONE. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. BLANCHAIiD. 



1 Henry Blanchard* July 2, 1871. 5 Catharine Wing, July 2, 1871. 

2 Mrs. Henry Blanchard,* " 6 Marcella Laverien {called 

3 Harriet B. Stone, " Patten), " 

4 Helen A. Whittier, " 7 Mary A. Patten,* Jan. 2, 1872. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. SEWARD, TO THE SPRING OIT 1880. 



Josiah L. Seward,* 
William P. Brazer, 
Mary E. Brazer, 
Charlotte J. Bond, 
Harriet A. Pierce, 
Rhoda E. Goodwin,* 
Annie Louise Buttrick, 
Lucy E. Penhallow,* 
Susan S. Penhallow,* 
Caroline C. Francis,* 
Harriet P. Whitney * 
Anne B. Richardson,* 



Jan. 2, 1876. 



May 8, 1876. 



July 2, 1876. 



13 Levi Sprague,* July 2, 1876. 

14 Lydia P. Sprague,* " 

15 Eliza B. Garland, 

16 Helen Eliza Garland, 

17 Mary A. Brigham, May 

18 Mrs. Caroline Shedd,* July 

19 Maria T. French * 

20 Mary E. Stone, July 

21 Jonathan Tyler Stevens, Sept. 

22 Alice < :oburn Stevens, 

23 John Fisher, 



5, 1878. 
7, 1878. 

6, 1879. 

7, 1879. 



THE FOLLOWING PARISHIONERS 



Their Membership not havii 

1 Erastus Douglass. 

2 Mrs. Erastus Douglass. 

3 Amanda Douglass. 

4 Samuel L. Dana. 

5 Mrs. Augusta Willard Dana. 

6 F. H. Nourse. 

7 Mrs. M. G. Howe. 

8 Annie P. Wise. 

9 John Wright. 

10 Roland Lyman. 

11 Abner Young. 

12 Mrs. Lucy Young. 

13 Mrs. James P. Walker. 

14 Mrs. Susan Penhallow. 

15 Julia Penhallow. 

16 Benjamin H. Penhallow, 

17 Windsor Howe. 

18 Mrs. Windsor Howe. 

19 John L. Cheney. 

20 Mrs. Klizabeth Spalding. 

21 Isaac Cooper. 

22 Mrs. Isaac Cooper. 

23 Aurelia Howe. 

24 Laura Howe. 

25 Mrs. Polly E. Blanchard. 

26 Miss Eliza Blanchard. 

27 Eli B. Carlton. 

28 Mrs. Eli B. Carlton. 

29 Mary E. Sargent. 



WERE OR ARE CHURCH MEMBERS, 



g been transferred to this Church. 

30 Mrs. George M. Elliott. 

31 Clara H. Elliott. 

32 I. F. Scripture. 

33 Mrs. I. F. Scripture. 

34 Charles B. Scadding. 

35 Rev. Horatio Wood. 

36 Mrs. Horatio Wood. 

37 Mrs. Ella Wood Appleton. 

38 Grace Wood. 

39 Martha Walker. 

40 Chauncey L. Knapp. 

41 Mrs. Chauncey L. Knapp. 

42 Mrs. J. B. Richardson. 

43 Mrs. Sarah B. Eaton. 

44 Peder Anderson. 

45 Mrs. Peder Anderson. 

46 James Francis. 

47 Mrs. Eliza Butterfield. 

48 Sydney Davis. 

49 Mrs. Sydney Davis. 

50 Julius C. Johnson. 

51 Enoch T. Perley. 

52 Mrs. Sidney Spalding. 

53 Elizabeth A. Wright. 

54 Charles Morrill. 

55 Mrs. Mary A. Livingston. 

56 Julian Abbot. 

57 Frank P. Appleton. 

58 Mrs. Frank P. Appleton. 



MEMBERS OF THE LEE STREET CHURCH. 



PASTORS. 



M. A. H. NILES, April 14, 1846, to Julv 
18, 1847. 

Rev. WILLIAM BARRY, Oct. 2, 1847, to 
Sept. 4, 1853 (the latter part of the 
time as pastor emeritus). 

Rev. AUGUSTUS WOODBUR Y. Sept. 
4, 1853, to April 1, 1857. 



4 Rev. JOHN B. KARCHER, March 30, 

1858, to Sept. 30, 1858. 

5 REV. WILLIAM C. TENNEY, Oct. 26, 

1859, to April 26, 1861. 

Rev. JOHN B. WILLARD supplied 
from Jan. to June (both months inclu- 
sive), 1859 ; but was not settled. 



DEACONS. 



Benjamin F. Aiken, Hazen Elliott, and John 
Morrison were chosen, April 14, 1846, and 
Daniel Knapp, June 5, 1S46. 



All served while the church lasted, or so 
long as they lived in town. 



APPENDIX NO. ONE. 



93 



MEMBEKS. 



Benjamin F. Aiken, 
Elizabeth Aiken, 
Hazen Elliott. 
Elmina Elliott, 
Weld Spauldiug, 
Harriet F. Spauldiug, 
John Bowers, 
Albert Mallard, 
Daniel Knapp, 
John Morrison, 
M. A. H. Niles (Pastor). 
Harriet E. Wmnek, 
Sarah A. Win nek, 
Mary Davis. 
Susan D. Bradstreet, 
Abba M. Pierce, 
Martha B. Pierce, 
Deborah H. Pierce, 
Betsey Kimball, 
Stella* S. Niles, 
Benjamin H. Penhallow. 
Mrs. Sarah French, 
Isaac Cooper, 



April 14, 1846. 



July 5, 1816. 

Aug. 2, 1846. 
Feb. 6, 1S48. 
July 2, 1848. 



•24 Lydia Bradley, 

25 Sarah C. Loomis, 

26 Susanna Gibbs Douglas 

27 Maria Fiske, 

28 Lydia L. Dayton, 

29 Ephraim B. Patch, 

30 Francis H. Nourse, 

31 Mrs. Maria Cooper, 

32 Sabra Gracier, 

33 Mary Smith Holmes, 

34 James G. Carney, 

35 Clarissa W. Carney, 

36 Harriet Hosmer, 

37 Mrs. Lydia A. Farmer. 

38 William A. Lamb. 

39 Mary A. C. Johnson, 

40 Agnes Winuek, 

41 Elizabeth Billings, 

42 Amanda G. Douglass, 

43 Mrs. Martha S. Salmon, 

44 Harriet A. Goodwin, 

45 Aurelia L. Howe, 

46 Laura F. Howe, 



July 2, 1848. 
Jan. 7, 1849. 

July 14, 1850. 



Dec. 1, 1S50. 
Sept. 7, 1851. 

Oct. 5, 1851. 
April 4, 1852. 
July 4, 1S52. 

June 4, 1854. 
Jan. 7, 1856. 
July 4, 1858. 
Jan. 1, 1859. 



JVppimirJ* Her* 



LIST OF BAPTISMS. 



DURING MINISTRY OF MR. BARRY. 



Children of Thos. Ord- 
way, Dec. 5, 1830. 



Mary Eliza, dau. of John Adams, Nov. 
21, 1830. 

John, son of John Avery, Nov. 21,1S30. 
Clara, Ch. of James G. Cax-ney, " 
Horace Howe, " " " 

Lettv, wife of Eliab Richardson, Dec. 5, 
1830. 

Warren Bradford, son of Abner Ball, 

Dec. 5, 1830. 
Eliza Richards, 
Thomas Tracy, 
Mary Currier, 
Alfred, 
John Lemist, ( 
Henry Morrill, 
Charles Sayer, j 
William Barry, J 

Harrison Haven, 1 Children of Eliab 
Eveline Eliza, I Ri chardson Dec> 
Louisa Maria, ]9 ,«« 

Anginette Amelia J 19 ' ASdU ' 
Mary Ann, ^ 

AK! tUS ' 1 Children of John Bow- 

Harrle? Hamlet, \ ers, Dec. 19, 1830. 
Catharine, J 

Mary Elizabeth, j Children of Fred. Cab- 
John Higginson, \ ot, March 13,1831 
Isaac Fiske, ) Children of Isaac. 
Sarah Elizabeth J Scripture, Mav 15, 
Martha Mead, ) 1831, 
Lucy Elizabeth, child of Mahlon Davis, 

Sept. 4, 1831. 
Weld Spaulding, Sept. 4, 1831. 
Theodore Koues, " 
Emily Elliot, Nov. 6, 1831. 
Sarah Rowe, " 
Benjamin, Children of Beni. 

j£ Augustus,) Walker.Noy.6,1831. 
Luther, "] 

William Henry, ! Children of Dorcas 
Mary Eliza, * f Stearns, Nov. 6, 1831. 
Laurens, J 

Matthias Alfred, son of Matthias Park- 
hurst, Nov. 6, 1S31. 

Dan'l, son of Dan'l Cutting, Nov. 6, 1831. 

Sarah Antoinette, daughter of Abner 
Ball, Nov. 6, 1831. 

Andrew Newell, > Children of Gushing 

Frances Ann, \ Baker, Dec. 18, 1832. 

Elizabeth D. Dana, Jan. 1, 1832. 

Sarah Derbv, daughter of John Avery, 
March 11, "1832. 

Samuel Foster, son of Sam. F. Haven, 
March 11, ia32. 



Charles Tibbets, son of James G. Car- 
ney, April 15, 1832. 

George Clinton, son of Wm. Fiske, May 
6, 1S32. 

John Bowers, Julv 1, 1832. 
Edward, son of Thomas Ordwav, July 
1, 1832. 



1 
i 

[Children of David 
{ Dana, Julv 1, 1S32. 
I 

J 



Elizabeth, 
Ann, 
David, 
Rebecca, 
Mary Frances 
Sarah Jane, 

Eliza, wife of John Adams, July 15,1832. 
George Washing-ton, son of John Adams. 

Julv 15, 1832. 
Susan Smith, Sept. 2, 1832. 

C-iroline Auonstn ) Children of Haskell 
Frederic ' | fg^ST^'' 

John Francis, ) Children of John 
Susan Elizabeth, S Morrison, Oct. 21, 
James Lewis, ) 1832. 
Susan Dickinson, Nov. 4, 1832. 
David Johnson, / Children of John 
John, i Mixer. Jan. 6, 1833. 

Luke Carter, son of Francis Hobbs, 

Jan. 6, 1833. 
Mary Jane Lancaster, March 3, 1833. 
Rebecca W. Eastman, " 
Catharine H. Plympton, " 
Harriet Augusta Welch, daughter of 

Luke Eastman, March 3, 1833. 
Lucy Ann Merriam, April 7, 1833. 
Sylvanus Adams, " 
Nancy Amanda, daughter of Abel H. 

Merriam, April 7, 1S33. 
Hannah Eddv, daughter of R. E. Bemis, 

April 21, 1833. 
Ruth, daughter of Abicl Abbot, June 16. 

1833. 

George Henrv, ) Children of George P. 

John, * ) Elliot, Oct.8, 1833. 

Lvdia Haven, daughter of Daniel Cut- 
ting, Oct. S, 1833. 

Caroline Cartwright. daughter of John 
Adams, Nov. 3, 1833. 

Edward Dayton, son of widow Ann 
Howard, Jan. 3,1834. 

John Howard, ) Children of John S. 

Mary Rindge, \ Sleeper, Jan. 19, 1834. 

Elvira W. Gawn.Feb. 2, ;834. 

Ellen Williams, daughter of Elvira W. 
Gawn, Feb. 2, 1834. 

Stephen Augustus, son of Isaac Scrip- 
ture, May 18, 1S34. 



(94) 



APPENDIX NO. TWO. 



95 



Harriet, wife of James Hopkins, June 
1. 1834. 



93 
94 

95 
96 
97 
96 

99 

100 

101 

102 
103 

101 
105 

106 

107 



I S^a^?* I Children of James 
HS^JSS 1 Hopkins, June 1,1534. 



John Watson, 
Albert Henry, son of Weld Spalding, 

June 15, 1S:S4. 
■Vl^ll a ' ) Children of wid. Mehitable 
i ?' ? J ' Straw.JuIv6.lS34. 
James, ) 3 J ' 

Susan Harriet, adopted daughter of 

Abraham Howe, July 6, 1834. 
George Earnes. son "of David Dana. 

July 6, 1834. 
Henrv Bliss, son of H. B. Stanton. Aug. 
17, 1834 

John Wentworth, son of Seth Ames. 

Sept. 6. 1834. 
Mary Labarte, Nov. 2, 1834. 

Eloise. daughter of wid. Mary Labarte. 

Nov. 2. 1834. 
Elizabeth Jewett, Nov. 2, 1634. 
Edward Barrv. ? on of Dr. J. C. Dalton, 

Xov. 2, 1834." 
Anna, daughter of Francis Hol>l>s. Nov. 

9. 1634. 

Elizabeth Hasar. Dec. 7. 1834. 



108 DoUy Seaver. Jan. 4. 1835. 

109 William Austin, 1 

110 Lucv Richmond, 1 Children of Mrs. Doll v 

111 Francis. f Searer, Jan. 4, 1835. 

112 Hepsev Ann, J 

113 Catharine, ) Daus. of widow C. B. 

114 Mary Frederica, j Folsom, Jan. 4. 1835. 

115 Frances Elizabeth Jewett. Feb. 1, 1835. 

116 Frances G. Currier. March 1, 1S35. 

117 Jane Henrv. daughter of A.H. Robinson, 

March 1,1835. 

118 Frederic, son of widow Dollv Seaver. 

March 9, 1S35. 

119 Julia, daughter of Francis Hobbs. April 

5. 1S35. 

120 Philena, daughter of John Mixer. June 

7. 1835. 

121 Adelia Williams, daughter of JohnAverv, 

June 12, 1835. 

122 George James, son of James G. Carnev. 

July 12, 1835. 

123 James Hewins, /Sons of Mr. 8avels, 

124 Charles Edward, \ Julv 12. 1S35. 

125 Elmira Elliott, Julv 15, 1835. 

126 Clara Mehitable. daughter "of Hazen 

Elliott, Julv 15, 1835. 



DURING MI>I>TKY OF DR. MILE- 



1 Hannah W. Brighani, July 1, ls37. 

2 Eliza Jane, "1 

3 HannahElizabeth. ' ., , . -r, 

4 MarvAnne, L ^ ld I e % ^ ■ ? an " 

5 Ellen Maria, > forth P Brigham, 

6 Charles William, Jnryl, 1SS». 

7 Caroline Louisa, J • 

8 Harrington Hatch. 'Aug. 3. 1>37. 

9 Ann Elizabeth, /Children ofHar- 

10 Harrington Gardner, \ 3? 1S37 

11 William Austin. / Ctfdrn of ^Harrington 

12 Clara Augusta, > Hatch. Aug. 3. 1837. 

13 Hazen Elliott. Aug. 5,1887. 

14 Joseph Franci-. son of Joseph F. Trott. 

Aug. 6, 1837. 

15 John Clark, son of Svlvanus Adams. 

Aug. 13, 1637. 

16 Elijah Fuller, son of wid. Lucy Breck. 

Aug. 27. 1837. 

17 Sidnev Howard, -un of .Tame- G. Carnev, 

Sept. 17, 1637. 
16 Charles Rus-ell. son of Rev. H. A.Miles 
[by Dr. Henry Ware, Jr.), Oct 22.1637. 

19 George Francis, son of Thomas Ordwav. 

March 4. 1838. 

20 Eleanor Clapp. daughter of Jo>eph F. 

Trott. March 4, 1838. 

21 Sophronia Johnson, June 17, 1838. 

23 Henrv, son of Isaac Scripture, June 17. 
1838. 

23 Maria Theresa, ) Children of John 
•24 John Hancock, { Adam-, Aug. 25, 1838. 

25 Fisher, son of Seth Ames, Dec. 25, 163?. 

26 Henrv Roarers, son of Dr. John C. Dalton, 

Dec". 25, 1838. 
-27 John William Appleton, son of J. A. 

Knowles, Esq.. Feb. is 1839. 
28 Mary Howard, daughter of James G. 

Carney. Sept. 29. 1839. 
99 Pelham Warren, son of Hon. Seth Anie-, 

Rot. S3, 1839. 

30 Henrv Sylvanos, son of Svlvanus 

Adams. Feb. 2. 1^40. 

31 Laura Ann Kimball. May 1, 1840. 

32 Martha, daughter of John Mixer. June 

7, 1840. 



Mary Davi=, June 20, 1840. 

Albert Locke, Sept. 26, 1840. 

Joseph Albert, son of Albert Locke, 

Sept. 26, 1840. 
John Prentiss, son of Thomas Hopkiu- 

son, Nov. 30, 1840. 
Louisa Warren Fletcher, daughter of 

David Dana, Feb. 17. 1841. 
Marv Stone, daughter of Geo. A. Hodges, 

Feb. 17, 1.841. 
John Clapp, son of Joseph Trott, Feb. 

17, 1841. 

Alfred Pvncheon. son of RolandLvman, 

31 ay 23, 1841. 
Hannah 1 . Lord, June 17, 1841. 
Anne Elizabeth. / Children of Benj. F. 
Albert Locke, \ Aiken. July 1, 1841. 
Helen Avgusta. daughter of Rev. H. A. 

Miles, Aug. 18. 1641. 
Julia Sarah, 1 CMMre nofMrs.Lvdia 
LvSaAnn. \ ^rdson, Sept. 5, 
Ma ry Elizabeth, J A!?41 ■ 
Catharine Lawrence, daughter ofC. T. 

Appleton, Nov. 28, 1841. 
Bet-ey Cozens, April 3, 1842. 
Mary Elizabeth, t Children of Daniel 
Ueofge Henry, ) Enapp, April 3,1642. 
Agnes Austin. / Daughters of A. H. 
France- Melville, * Robinson, Apl. 7, ! 42. 
Sabrina Putnam, June 6, 1842. 
Sarah Augusta, i Children of Mrs. Sa- 
Helen Amanita. J brina Putnam, June 
Robert Wiley. ) 6. 1842. 
Jonas Clark March, ) Children of widow 
Dan'l M. Lancaster. J E. A. Long. June 
John Higgins, ) 6, 1842. 

William Oscar, / Sons of Wm. Fiske, 
Edward Ambrose, ) June 6, 1842. 
Charlotte Ann. ) Daughters of widow 
Maria. J Benj. Walker, June 

Susanna, ) 6, 1842. 

James Oliver, ) Sons Dea. Isaac Scrip- 
Geo. Edward, s ture, June 6, 1842. 
Ann Parker, daughter of Dr. J. C. Dalton, 

Jtdvl7, 1842. 



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ins 



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114 
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118 
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121 
122 



John, ) Children of J. L. 

Chas. Starkweather, J Locke, July 30, 
Jane Ermina, ) 1842. 

Eliza Ann, / Daughters of John Nes- 
Harriet Bell, < mith, Aug. 12, 1842. 
Harriet Eliza Winnek, Sept. 3, 1842. 
Sarah Ann Winnek, Sept. 3, 1842. 
Francis Bush. Out. 27, 1842. 
Joseph, 1 

£ wo vfi' I Children of Francis Bush, 
George, ' [ Oct. 27, 1842. 
Elvira Jane, J 

Abner Wheeler Buttrick, Nov. 6, 1842. 
Isabella Dana Wright, Nov. 6, 1842. 
Ebenezer Osgood Fineld, Jan. 11, 1843. 
Elizabeth Gooch Fineld, Jan. 11, 1843. 
Ellen Maria Fineld, Jan. 11, 1843. 
Abigail, wile of Augustus Wilder, March 
12, 1843. 

Henry Augustus, son of AugustusWilder, 
March 12, 1843. 

Joel Adams, son of Dr. J. C. Bartlett, of 
Chelmsford, April 13, 1843. 

Sarah Rand Green, May 9, 1843. 

Charles Jaques, son of Mrs. S. R. Green, 
May 9, 1843. 

Susan Duncan, daughter of Hon. Seth 
Ames, May 25, 1843. 

Charles Follen, son Dea. Isaac Scrip- 
ture, July 2, 1843. 

Augustus, son of John Mixer, July 2, 
1843. 

Ellen Christina, daughter of Thomas 

Hopkinson, July 24, 1843. 
Frederick Henry Dorr, son of Joseph F. 

Trott, Aug. 1, 1843. 
Mary Haven, daughter of JohnG. Locke, 

Sept. 17, 1843. 
Mary McAfee, daughter of B. F. Aiken, 

Nov. 5, 1843. 
Sarah Louise, daughter of Hon. J. A. 

Knowles, Nov. 5, 1843. 
William Henrv, son of Henry Brown, 

Dec. 25, 1843/ 
Hannah Elizabeth Lyman, April 7, 1844. 
Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of'Charles 

T. Appleton, April 7, 1844. 
Herman Monrad, son of Peder Ander- 
son (at Groton), April 27, 1845. 
Leslie, daughter of Henry S. Orange, 

Mav 19, 1845. 
Grace LeBarron, daughter of John G. 

Locke, Oct. 19, 1S45. 

-} Children of Rev. H. A. 
Mary Denny, I Miles, baptized by their 
Sarah Holvoke, ( grandfather, then 80 
J years old, Nov. 27, 1845. 
Charles Edward, son of John Mixer, 

April 19, 1846. 
Mary, daughter of Joseph F. Trott, 

April 19, 1846. 
Francis Goodwin, son of John G. Locke, 

Oct. 11, 1846. 
Grace Mellen, daughter of Thomas Hop- 
kinson, Jan. 17, 1847. 
George H., ) Children of Isaac S. Morse, 
Emma B., \ March 8, 1848. 

Helen Catharine, daughter of William 

Fiske, March 8, 1848. 
Dr. Peleg Bradley, April 28, 1848. 
Harriet Bradley, 1 children of Dr. 
ElmiraW Bradley, Pele Bradley, 
Miranda W .Bradley, > .,, 
Frederick F.Bradley, J Jyp 
Charles Bent, April 28, 1848. 
Mary S. Bent, April 28, 1848. 



28, 1848. 



123 
124 
125 
126 

127 Walter, 
128 
12:i 
130 



Sarah J. Bent, April 28, 1848. 
Elizabeth Coburn,Mav 6, 1848. 
Charles, 1 

Horace, { Children of C. B. Coburn, 



May 6, 1848. 



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132 

133 
134 

135 

136 

137 
138 
139 
140 
141 
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143 
144 
145 



1 Hi 
147 
1 18 
1 V. 1 

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151 

152 

153 

154 

155 

156 
157 
158 

159 

160 

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162 

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169 
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171 
172 
173 
171 
175 
176 
177 
178 
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181 
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Children of E. 
L. LeBreton, 
Nov. 21, 1849. 
Dec. 2, 1849. 



Edward, J 

Hapgood Wright, Esq., May 6, 1848. 
Ann Elizabeth, adopted daughter of Hap- 
good Wright, Esq., Mav 6, 1848. 
John Mixer, May 7, 1848". 
Hannah H., wife of W. S. Bennett, June 

4, 1848. 

Eliza Jane Butterfield, June 4, 1848. 
George Prentice, son of N. M. Wright, 

Nov. 5, 1848. 
John Leach, son of a Mr. Milnes, Nov. 

5, 1848. 

George Bragdon, son of Rev. H. A. 

Miles, March 3, 1849. 
Eliza Ann, ") 

Mary Adaline, | Children of Gen. Beni. 
Francis Perkins, y Adams, April 12, 
Isabel Jane, | 1849. 
Ella Elizabeth, J 

Charles Frederick, son of Francis Bush, 
April 12, 1849. 

Charles Francis, ) Child'n of J. s. Gor- 

Catharlne Marion, \ don, April 17, 1849. 

Ann Frances, daughter of Peder Ander- 
son, Esq., April 28, 1849. 

Anna Gunnison, July 17, 1849. 

Sarah Ann Penn, Nov. 3, 1849. 

Francis Stearns, 

Lucy Olivia Prescott, 

Charles Prescott, 

Charles II. Barber, 

Mary, daughter of Charles H. Barber, 

Dec. 2, 1849. 
Henry Miles, son of Hon. J. A. Knowles, 

Feb. 24, 1850. 
Susan Ann Dalton Rogers, daughter of 

George P. Elliott, Feb. 24, 1850. 
Elizabeth Cranch Norton, daughter of 

E. W. Young, Feb. 24, 1850. 
Anna Pierpont, I Children of W.G.Wise, 
Pierpont, \ Esq., Feb. 24, 1850. 

Frank Battles, son of Isaac S. Morse, 

March 31, 1850. 
Josiah French, son of Hon. Beni. H. 

Dean, April 21, 1850. 
Elizabeth Whitmarsh. daughter of Peder 

Anderson, Esq., Jan. 19, 1851. 
Joanna Eames Dana. Feb. 1, 1851. 
Albert D., son of N. M. Wright, March 

30, 1851. 

Children of Jas. 
Hoyle, March 
16, 1852. 

Marguerite A., daughter of W. G. Wise, 

Esq., Sept. 15, 1852. 
Mary Ann, 1 
Isabelle, 
John, 

Julia Dalton, | 
Rebecca, J 
Charlotte A>rstelle Kendall. Feb. 1, L853. 
Sabra, 1 
Cath. Janet Darricott, I 
Lois Ripley, | Children of Mrs. 

Mary Montgomery, )- Alex. Wright, 
Helen Waugh, April 12, 1853. 

Alexander, 

William Spencer, J 
Mary Jane, 1 

Emily Porter, ( Daughters of Isaac Scrip- 
Lydia, \ ture,June 26, 1853. 

Fanny Ames, J 



George Washington 
Clara Esther, 



Children of Hon. John 
Nesmith, Dec. 24, 1852. 



APPENDIX NO. TWO. 



97 



DURING MINISTRY OF ME. HINCKLEY. 



Tsabelle, daughter of Peder Anderson, 

Esq., Dec. 21, 1S56. 
Charles Derby, son of Dr. Eben San- 
born, Dec. 25, 1856. 
Marv Anne, wife of Hon. J. B. French, 

April 3, 1S57. 
Sarah Josephine, I Daus. of Hon. J . B. 
Catharine Isabella \ French, April 3, 1S57. 
Clara, wife of Hon. John F. Kimball, 

April 3, 1857. 
Frances Ellen, daughter of Thos. B. 

Dawson, Esq., April 3, 1857. 
Anna Maria, ) Daus. of Mrs. Har- 
Isabella Graham, \ rington, May 1, 1857. 
Mrs. Abby < arr Burbauk, June* 5, 18.57. 
Eleazer Robinson, ) ChiFnMrs. A. C. Bur- 
Eugene Webster, ) bank, June 5, 1857. 
Caroline Augusta, wife of Hon. G. F. 

Richardson, June 7, 1857. 
Marietta, daughter of Hon. G. F. Rich- 
ardson, June 7, 1857. 
Frances Maria, ) Daughters of Rau- 
Harriet Elizabeth, > som Reed, Esq., 
Annie, ) June 7, 1857. 

James Ernest, ) Sons of Hon. John Nes- 
Joseph Aaron, ) mith, July 26, 1857. 
Anne, daughter of Hon. D. S. Richard- 
son, Nov. 26, 1857. 
Jerome Feuelon Manning, Dec. 4, 1856. 
Lvnian Bigelow Manning, " 
Elizabeth, ) children of C. B. Co- 



Alice Nichols, 



burn, Dec. 10, 1857 



Harriet, 

Louisa Upham, daughter of Wm. G. 
Wise, Esq., Dec. 25, 1857. 

Martha Bradford, daughter of D. Brad- 
ford Bartlett, Dec. 25, 1857. 

Alice, t Daughters of Abraru French, 

Gertrude, \ Esq., July 1, 1858. 

Fanny Kidder Wyman, July 1, 185S. 

William Earle, "son of George Darra- 
cott, Jr., Sept. 19, 1858. 



38 



M-frv fnna 1611 ' } Child ^ n of Rev - F ' 

Chalet Ibraham, f JS™*** Se ^ 19 > 

Jennie, J lil0t> ' 

George Washington, sou of James Hop- 
kins, Esq., April 4, 1859. 

Emma Elizabeth Hatch, grandchild of 
John Adams, Esq., April 4, 1859. 

George Albert, adopted son of a Mr. 
Barnes, July 15, 1860. 

Mary Augusta Hews, April 4, 1861. 

Mary Eleanor, daughter of John Alden, 
Nov. 21, 1861. 

Catharine F., wife of Thos. B. Lawson, 
Esq., April IS, 1S62. 

LiUa, ) Children of T. B. 

LawrenceAllston, [ Lawson, Esq., Apr. 

Walter Uhler, ) 18, 1862. 

Rowena, dau. of Fisher A. Hildreth, 
Esq., April 18, 1862. 

Lvdia Parker, wife of Levi Sprague, 
Esq., April 18, 1862. 

Levi Kirk, ) Children of Levi Sprague, 

Pascal, | Esq., April IS, 1862. 

Julia Swift, daughter of W. S. Ben- 
nett, Esq., April IS, 1862. 

David Dana, son of D. B. Bartlett, Esq., 
April 20, 1862. 

George Reed, son of Hon.G. F. Richard- 
son, April 20, 1S62. 

Emily, / Children of the late Dr. Eb- 

John Eben, ) en Sanford, Mav 10, 1862. 

Caroline, daughter of Hon. G." F. Rich- 
ardson, April 2, 1863. 

Elizabeth Everett, daughter of James 
R. Darracott, April 22, 1863. 

Susan Prescott, daughter of Wm. P. & 
Abby Wright, Feb. 7, 1864. 

John Mavnard, son of J. B.Keyes, Esq., 
March 9, 1S64. ■ 

Henry, son of Charles E. A. Bartlett, 
Esq., Oct. 30, 1864. 



DERI KG MINISTRY OF MR. GRESNELL. 



Catharine M., daughter of George H. 

Bartlett, Oct. 6, 1867. 
Herbert Hamilton, son of Wm. P. & 

Abbv Wright, Nov. 3, 1867. 
Mrs. Meliuda Bird Yinev, Jan. 5, 1868. 
Evelyn Maria Hunt, Jan. 5, 1868. 
Eliza J. Burbeck, Jan. 5, 1S68. 



Martha, / Children of C. B. Co- 

Agnes Ward, i burn ,Esq., May 17, '68. 
Charles Edward, son of Chas. E. A. 

Bartlett, Esq., Oct. 11, 1868. 
Adelia C Sawyer, Dec. 30, 1868. 
Victoria McLean, daughter of Charles 

H. Coburn, Esq., Oct. 10, 1S69. 



ETRIXG MINISTRY OF MR. BLANCH ARB. 



Alice F., dau. of Newman W. Storer, 
Dec. 25, 1869 (before Mr. Blanchard's 
settlement) . 

Harriet, ) daus. of E. R. Talbot, Nov. 

Gertrude, j 5, 1870. 

John Alfred, ) sons of Alfred P. Lv- 

Walter Jacob, i man, Nov. 5, 1S70. 

Mrs. Mary Jane Mansur, Nov. 5, 1870. 

Fannie Sprague,") 

William Levi, ( Children of Mrs. M. J. 
George Warren, [ Mansur, Nov. 5, 1870. 
Lydia Ne smith, J 



11 Herbert Tower, son of Jefferson A. 
Knowles, Nov. 5, 1S70. 
Mareella Laverien (called Patten), July 
2, 1871. 

Helen A. Whittier, Julv 2, 1871. 
Catharine Wing, July 2, 1871. 
Frederick Cutler, son of Newman W. 

Storer,. March 7, 1872. 
Frederick Wm., son of C. H. Coburn, 

June 10, 1873. 
Nesmitli, son of Hon. F. T. Greenhalge, 
Jan. 28, 1874 (baptized by Rev. F. G. 
Peabody). 



13 



98 



APPENDIX NO. TWO. 



DURING MINISTRY OF MR. SEWARD TO 1880. 



1 Frederic Brandlesome, son of Hon. F. 

T. Greenhalge, Dec. 25, 1875. 

2 Mrs. Charlotte Josette Bond, Jan.2, 1876. 

3 Mrs. Harriet Atwood Pierce, " 

4 Mrs. Mary Edwards Brazer, " 

5 Charles Butterfield, son ol Alonzo A. 

Coburn, Jan. 2, 1876. 

6 Arthur Stone, son of Edward F. Coburn, 

Jan. 2, 1876. 

7 Walter Sprague, son of Walter Coburn, 

Jan. 2, 1876. 

8 Joseph Sidney, son of Col. James Fran- 

cis, Jan. 20, 1876. 

9 Annie Louise, dau. of Alden B. But- 

trick, April 30, 1876. 

10 Annie Frances, dau. of Jefferson A. 

Knowles, July 2, 1876. 

11 Marion, dau. of John H. McAlvin, July 

2, 1S76. 

12 Gertrude Isabel, ) C1 ^ n nl ^ 

13 Harry Livingstone, j g 1876 ' July 

14 Eugene French, ) Ch £%Z£ s 

15 Maud Thompson, j fsifi "' 

16 Harriet Sidney, dau. of Mrs. Sidnev 

Spalding, July 2, 1876. 

17 Mav, dau. of William P. Brazer, July 2, 

1876. 

18 Ralph Noyes, son of Mrs. Thos. E. Dow, 

July 2, 1876. 

19 Mrs. Eliza Garland, July 2, 1876. 

20 Helen Eliza Garland, Julv 2, 1876. 

21 Fannie Baldwin, dau. of J. A. Knowles, 

Jr., Sept. 25, 1876. 

22 Richmond Everett, son of Alfred P. Ly- 

man, July 1, 1877. 

23 Frank, son of Lingard C. Wing, Julv 1, 

1877. 

24 Louis Henrv, son of Mrs. Thos. E. Dow, 

July 1, 1877. 

25 Clay Cooper, son of C. E. A. Bartlett, 

Oct. 28, 1877. 

26 Tvler Abbott, son of Jonathan Tvler 

Stevens, Jan. 28, 1878. 

27 Helen, dau. of Chas. H. Coburn, May 21, 

1878. 



Harriet Appleton, 
Leslie Appleton, 



Harriet, dau. of Horace B. Coburn, Dec. 
26, 1878. 

Mrs. Alice Leslie Appleton Knowles, 
Jan. 14, 1879. 

Dans, of Henry M. 
Knowles, Jan. 14, 
1879. 

Julia West, dau. of Jonathan Tyler 

Stevens, March 5, 1879. 
Nellie Maud, 1 

Jennie Maria, ( Children of Geo. F. 
George Clement, f Hunt, May 26, 1879. 
Rin da May, j 

Mary E./dau. of Mrs. Edward Stone, 

June 15, 1879. 
Catharine Louise, 

Mary Augusta, ^Daus. of Henry O. 
Daisy Hartwell, ( Morse, June 15,1879. 
Harriet Graces J 

Florence H., dau. of Henry F. Whittier, 

June 15, 1879. 
Russell Maxfleld, son of Francis E. 

Shaw, June 15, 1879. 
Mary Carney Vose, dau. of Mrs. James 

Francis, -June 15, 1879. 
Mary I., dau. of Charles T. Goddard, 

June 15, 1879. 
Sophia L., dau. of Samuel E. Ravmond, 

June 15, 1879. 
Harriet Nesmith, dau. of Hon. F. T. 

Greenhalge, June 15, 1879. 
Nellie Maud, dau. of Geo. P. Goodwin, 

July 6, 1879. 
Talbot, son of Richard H. Ewart, July 6, 

1879. 
Katie, 

Guy Hamilton, 
Mabel How, 
Herbert Dana, 
John Otis, 



Children of Hamilton 
• Burrage, Sept. 21, 
1879. 



Harry Howland, 
Almira Nichols, 



Children of Alfred 
P. Lvman, Feb. 29, 
1880.' 

(Amanda Bird, Julia Bird, and Lucy Kit- 
tredge were baptized by non-resident 
clergymen several years ago — dates 
not given). 



BAPTISMS AT LEE ST. CHURCH. 



BY MR. BARRY. 



Harriet Frances, dau. of John A. War- 
ren, July 4, 1848. 
Charles Edward, son of Haskell Spald- 
ing, Aug. 29, 1848. 
Albert Harrison, ) Sons of Albert Mai- 
Henry Kirk, \ lard, April 24, 184S. 
Henry Harrison, ) Children of D. P. 
Sarah Phipps, [ Brigham, Sept. 1, 
Emeline Frances, ) 1848. 
Eliza Ann, /Children, of Daniel 
Horace Hunt, i Knapp, Sept. 24, 1848. 
Elizabeth Holmes, dau. of B. F. Aiken, 
Oct. 14, 1848. 

Children of Aaron 
Scales, Dec. 24, 1848. 



11 Sarah Ellen, 



12 Edward Aaron, 

13 Harriet Maria, 

14 Henry Clay, 

15 Ellen Jane, 



Children of Isaac 
Cooper, Dec. 24, 1848. 



Ellen, 



Children of Joseph 
Joseph Warren, j ^1^°"' Jan " 
George Appleton, son of Jonathan 

Johnson, Jan. 7, 1849. 
George Allen, ) Children of Abel Fiske, 
Helen Maria, \ July 22, 1849. 
George Bird, son of Jerry Andrews, 

Oct. 26, 1849. 
Fitz Henry, ) Sons of Haskell Spald- 
Wm. Eugene, \ ing, Oct. 31, 1849. 
William, son of Rev. William Barry, 

Oct. 31. 1849. 
Sabra Gracier, Sept. 1, 1850. 
Lydia A. Farrar, April 4, 1852. 
William A. Lamb, July 4, 1852. 
Mary A. C. Johnson, July 4, 1852. 



APPENDIX XO. TTTO. 



99 



BY MR. WOODBURY. 



i« u . ^„n ) Children of M. V. 

Charles Marshall, Wellington, May 

Mar ^' ) 14, 1854. 

Lowell Blake, son of Geo. Darracott, 

May 14, 1854 
Ellen, / Daus. of Wm. Lam- 

Charlotte Augusta, \ son, May 14, 1854. 
Agnes Winnek, June 4, 1854. 



7 Ella Jenny, dau. of J 

15, 1857. 

8 Wallace, ^ 

9 Herbert Lee, 

10 Julia Randolph 

11 Howard, 

12 Anne Gore, 



ihedd, Mar. 



| Children of Isaac 
Y Hincklev, June 16, 
| 1857. 



AYTER MR. WOODBURY'S MIMSTRY. 



1 Amanda G. Douglass, July 4, 1858, by 

Rev. Mr. Karcher. 

2 Harriet A. Goodwin, Jan. 1, 1860, bv 

Rev. Mr. Tennev. 
:i Eliza A. Shepard,*Oct. 5, 1860, by Rev. 
Mr. Tenney. 

LofC. 



4 James Andrew, son of George J. Car- 

nev. Esq., Oct. 20, 1868, bv Rer. Dr. 
Edson. 

1 Sons of Geo. J. Car- 

5 George Sidney, [ Stm «? w5S" 

6 Edward Ballard, ( 

J R. L, June 9, 1872. 



MARRIAGES. 

[The list is designed to contain a record of the marriages of ladies belonging to the 
parish, but the marriages of gentlemen are not noted, nnless they married a lady of the 
parish, or invited the parish pastor to assist, for such marriages would be recorded in the 
parish of the bride. The residence is supposed to be Lowell, it' not otherwise stated.] 



1 Matthias Parkhurst to Eliza Andrews, 

Jan. 10, 1828. 

2 Mahlon Davis to Elizabeth Spalding, 

Aug. 16, 1829. 



BEFORE THE ORDINATION OF MR. BARRY 

3 



William Fiske to Catharine H. Hudson, 
Nov. 16, 1830. 



1 Daniel Cutting to Lydia H. Bigelow, 

Dec. 1, 1830. 

2 Perlev Hale to Eliza Bean, Dec. 16, 

1830". 

3 William W. Roberts to Nancy Bean, 

March 6, 1831. 

4 John L. Francis to Robv Low, both of 

Tewksbury, May 1, 1831. 

5 Isaac Deming to Sophronia Trull, June 

16, 1831. 

6 Charles Piper to Phoebe M. Ames, Oct. 

2, 1831. 

7 Samuel Pierce to Eliza Crowell, Oct. 16, 

1831. 

8 George Chamberlain to Marv Ann Mer- 

rill, Oct. 16, 1831. 

9 Erastus Stearns to Judith R. Sargent, 

Dec. 8, 1831. 

10 Aimer Kittredge to Harriet Phillips, 

Dec. 29, 1831. 

11 John H. Blacker (afterwards called 

Blake) to Lucia Whitney, Mai-. 1, 1832. 

12 William Newman, to Mary Ann Eliza- 

beth Tucker, May 20, 1832. 

13 John W. Damon to Nancy M. Hayward, 

Aug. 26, 1832. 

14 Freeman Higgius, of Saco, Me., to Dor- 

cas A. Stearns, Sept. 15, 1832. 

15 Philip B. Grant to Mary Simpson, Oct. 

21, 1S32. 

16 Horace Jewett to Jane Churchill, Dec. 

17, 1832 

17 Samuel Stickney to Lucy M. Haynes, 

Dec. 31, 1832. 

18 Joseph G. Wyatt to Elizabeth C. Clark, 

Jan. 2, 1833. 

19 Solomon C Seavev to Jane Thaxter, 

Jan. 31, 1833. 

20 Ephraim B. Patch to Martha Adams, 

Feb. 27, 1833. 

21 Geo. W. Hills to Esther Farnsworth, 

March 14, 1833. 

22 Augustus Hunt to Miranda Atherton, 

March 19, 1833. 



DURING MINISTRY OF MR. BARRY 
23 



Thomas I. Wood to Evelina Hardv, 
April 2, 1833. 

24 George Johnson to Edith Baxter, April 

4, 1833. 

25 Ebenezer H. Smith to Emeline Dumptin, 

April 6, 1833. 

26 Henrv B. Stanton to Lvdia Dana, April 

ll,i833. 

27 Simeon Cunningham to Marv P. Sanborn, 

both of Tewksbury, April 11. 1833. 

28 Albert G. Flint to Amy E. Brown, May 

14, 1833. 

29 Jonathan R, Upton to Harmena Sabin, 

May 19, 1833. 

30 Allston Allen to Eliza R. Ordwav, June 

5, 1833. 

31 Cyrus Frost to Nancy Barden, June 11, 

1833. 

32 David Wilson to Maria F. Baker, July 

4, 1833. 

33 Jefferson D. Marston to Susan R. Miller, 

July 28, 1833. 

34 OtisBullard to Catharine E. Brigham, 

Sept. 2, 1833. 

35 Franklin Farrar to Ann Moor, Sept. 9, 

1833. 

36 Jones W. S. Drew to Elizabeth T. Davis, 

Sept. 15, 1833. 

37 James H. Emerson to Judith E. Flan- 

ders, Sept. 17, 1833. 
3S Nathaniel Carter to Sarah D. Burbank, 
Sept. 17, 1833. 

39 Charles Marshall to Electa Pollard, 

Sept. 22, 1833. 

40 Joseph E. Colburn to Ann W. Kimball, 

Sept. 22, 1833. 

41 John E. Woods to Nancv Thompson, 

both of Tewksbury, Oct." 13, 1833. 

42 Robert L. Jones to Lavina Peabodv, 

Oct. 20, 1833. 

43 Franklin H. Wyman to Dolly Davis, 

Oct. 20, 1833. 

44 John H. Fuller to Harriet N. Newton, 

Oct. 27, 1833. 



APPEXDIX XO. THREE. 



101 



45 John A. Enowles, Esq., to Sarah E. Ap- i 60 

pleton, of Tewksburv, Oct. 31, 1833. 

46 Husrh Fulton to Janet Poison, Dec. 1, 

1833. 61 

47 Madison' Loring to Sarah C.Jenness, 

both of Tewksburv, Dec. 25, 1833. 62 

48 Robert R. Moore to Phebe J. Buxton, 

both of Tewksburv, Jan. 18, 1834. 63 

49 Aaron Scadding- to Ruth Sticknev, Jan. 

19, 1834. 64 

50 Follansbee Hazeltine to Betsev Wheeler, 

Feb. 26, 1S34. 65 

51 Daniel Holden to Sarah Havnes, both of 

Tewksburv, March 28, 1834. 66 

52 Lowell Lawrence to Angelina ITpton, 

Mav8, 1834. I 67 

53 Horace C. Dean to Eliza E. Flinn, of I 

Dunstable (Nashua), N.H., May 8, 1834., 68 

54 Samuel B. Field to Maria Marble, Mav 

13,1834. * | 69 

55 Joseph Stevens, of Chelmsford, to Har- i 

riet F. Richardson, June 4, 1834. 70 

56 Rodnev McAllister to Mary Emerson, 

both'of Chelmsford, June 17, 1834. 71 

57 Eli Wentworth to Julia Ann Hodgman, 

Aug. 12, 1834. 72 

58 Aaron B.Howe to Elizabeth Bennett, 

Aug. 31, 1S34. j 73 

59 Luther French, Jr., to Louisa Baldwin, 

Aug. 31, 1834. 



Dr. John C. Bartlett to Maria Juliet 
Adams, both of Chelmsford, Oct. 9, 
1S34. 

Dwellev W. Burgess to Mary Buxton, 

Oct. 29, 1834. 
Dr. John W. Graves to Ann M. Adams, 

of Dracut, Nov. 25, 1S34. 
Oliver J. Conant to Elizabeth A. Berrv, 

Dec. 28, 1834. 
Haparood Wrisrht to Emeline Gates, Jan. 

1, 1835. 

Charles H. Wilder to Mary P. Bobbins, 

Feb. 5, 1835. 
William Newman to Emilv Morrison, 

Feb. 24, 1835. 
Hiram Fiske. of Derrv, N. H., to Louisa 

Whitney, March IS, 1835. 
John E.Cadmus to Susan E. Gushing, 

March 18, 1835. 
Parker Flanders to Mary Follansbee, 

March 29, 1835. 
Wm. Pasre to Sarah Ann McFarland, of 

Belfast, Me., April 2, 1835. 
Walker Flanders to Marv Neil, April 

30, 1835. 

Bradbury M. Rowe to Mary Jane Moore, 

Jun e 1*1 , 1835. 
Walter French to Nancv B. Osgood, 

Julv 2, 1835. 



BETWEEN THE MINISTRIES OF ME. BARRY AXD DR. MILES. 



1 Levi Sprague to Lvdia P. Wood, Sept. 

3, 1835. 

2 Abner Kittredge to Ann Maria Towne, 

Oct. 4, 1S35. 

3 Edwin T. Wilson to Harriet Straw, Nov. 

22, 1S35. 

4 Micajah Bowers to Lucinda J. Spauld- 

ing, Dec 3, 1835. 

5 Lorenzo Damon to Elvira W. Clarke, 

Dec. 3, 1835. 



6 George Chaudler to Clarissa Wright, 

Dec. 9, 1835. 

7 Samuel Horn to Hannah S. Harper, Dec. 

13, 1835. 

8 Asaph Parlin, of Carlisle, to Sarah F. 

Saunders on, May 15, 1836. 

9 Josiah Gates to Harriet N. Cobiirn, Sept. 

29, 1836. 

10 Archibald O. Varnum, of Dracut, to Ann 
M. Parker, Nov. 3, 1836. 



DURING MINISTRY OF DR. MILES. 



1 Albert Locke. Esq., to Marv Ann Locke, 

March 1, 1837. 

2 Thomas J. Barnes to Chastina Daven- 

port, April 30, 1837. 

3 Charles B. Coburn to Elizabeth West, 

May 24, 1837. 

4 Hamlin Davis to Alice N. Pavson, Julv 

4, 1837. 

5 Edward B. Howe to Mary A. J. Maeder, 

of Thetford, Vt., Sept. 17, 1837. 

6 William Manuel, of Seekonk, to Lovisa 

Jewett, Jan. 1, 183S. 

7 Daniel H. Peabody to Lavina Cum- 

mings, Jan. 18, 1838. 

8 Joseph Hanson to Catharine Grant, 

March 2, 1838. 

9 Samuel P. Scott to Lucretia Bohannon, 

March 15, 1838. 

10 William Tavlor, Jr , of Littleton, to 

Martha B. Brown, July 5, 1838. 

11 Clark K. Lewis to H. Almira Bradlev, 

Aug. 27, 1838. 

12 JolnTM. Wilson, Esq., of Joliet, 111., to 

Martha Ann Appleton, Oct. 9, 1838. 

13 Nathan Tvler to Mary Ann Perham, 

Dec. 2, 1*S3S. 

14 Albert Hastings, of Boston, to Ann 

Wau<rh, Dec. 3, 1838. 

15 William H. Moody to Harriet M. Leslie 

(divorced April 17, 1840), Jan. 14, 1839. 



I 16 Nathan M. Wright to Isabella D. Cush- 
ing, Jan. 31, 1839. 

17 James K. Fellows to Marv C. Ordwav, 

Feb. 22. 1839. 

18 Daniel M. Peck, of Nashua, N. H., to 

Mary Ann Baker, April 25, 1S39. 

19 Joseph G. Pike to Eliza M. Stevens, 

Aug. 18, 1839. 

20 Stephen R. Calvin, of Honeove Falls, N. 

Y., to Loruhama Hill, Aug. 19, 1839. 

21 Jeremiah W. Gale to Lovisa Baker, 

Sept. 26, 1839. 

22 Timothv G. Tweed to Marv C. True, 

Oct. 31, 1839. 

23 John F. Queen to Sally Cummings, both 

of Tvngsborough, Nov. 28, 1839. 

24 Charles Tweed, of Woburn, to Judith 

Kendall, Nov. 28, 1839. 

25 Gilman Barrett, of Boston, to Sarah A. 

G. Paul, Feb. 21. 1840. 

26 David Bradt to Hester M. Bailev, of 

Boston, Feb. 21, 1S40. 

27 Asa Coolev, Jr., to Sarah B. Pillsburv, 

April 1, 1840. 

28 Charles Harrinsrton, Jr., of Lexington, 

to Sarah H. Wade, April 6, 1840. 

29 Lewis Proctor to Apphia H. Littlefield, 

June 3, 1840. 

30 Daniel Billing-s to Mrs. Abigail Billings, 

June 18, 1840. 



102 APPENDIX NO. THREE. 



31 James May, of Manchester, N. H., to 

Mary L. Paul, Sept. 7, 1840. 

32 John Nesmith, Esq., to Harriet R. Man- 

sur, Oct. 19, 1840. 

33 Emmons Tweed to Clara M. Coburn, of 

Dracut, Oct. 29, 1840. 

34 Charles Hardy to Harriet F. York, of 

Exeter, N. H., Nov. 25, 1840. 

35 Daniel Hagar, of Brattleboro', Vt., to 

Lucinda Fox, March 24, 1841. 

36 Augustus Wilder to Abigail G. Tilton, 

May 16, 1841. 

37 Stephen Baxter Savage, of Belize, Brit- 

ish Honduras, to Matilda Coolidge 
Curtis, of Boston, June 3, 1841. 

38 Henry S. Orange to Sarah Ann Bradley, 

June 10, 1841. 

39 Joseph G. Grinned, of New Bedford, to 

Susan J. Williams, of Dracut, Sept. 14, 
1841. 

40 Joseph Davenport to Adelia Goddafd, 

Dec. 2, 1841. 

41 Noah F. Gates to Sarah M. Lawrence, 

of Concord, Dec. 2, 1841. 

42 Josiah Walker to Sarah A. Evans, Jan. 

24, 1842. 

43 George W. Fuller, of Boston, to Mary 

Jane Brown, April 14, 1842. 

44 Charles Wood to Laura A. Cheever, 

July 14, 1842. 

45 Benjamin Walker to Catharine K. Gillis, 

of Wilmington, Oct. 27, 1842. 

46 Elbridge G. Bern is, of Dracut, to Betsey 

M. Holt, Jan. 8, 1843. 

47 Daniel J. Stevens to Phebe R. French, 

Feb. 16, 1843. 

48 George G. Knapp to Elizabeth A. P. 

Way, March 15, 1843. 

49 C. A. Hamilton, of Worcester, to H. 

Maria Prescott, April 13, 1843. 

50 Hiram Martin to Sarah J. Marsh, June 

15, 1843. 

51 George W. Norris to Mrs. Sally S. Nor- 

ris, Aug. 3, 1843. 

52 James F. Welch to Mary S. Merrill, 

Aug. 17, 1843. 

53 Nathaniel Robinson to Charlotte Paty, 

Nov. 28, 1843. 

54 William H. Cooper to Abby E. Palmer, 

Jan. 28, 1844. 

55 Francis Lam son to Sarah Ann Taisey, 

April 4, 1844. 

56 Phineas Whiting to Anna A. Butterfield, 

May 7, 1844. 

57 Franklin Coburn to Hannah E. Phelps, 

May 16, 1844. . 

58 Freeman Wright to Ruth M. Smith, May 

20, 1844. 

59 David S. Swan to Charlotte Moor, of 

Tewksbury, May 21, 1844. 

60 Joel Nourse'to Elizabeth Ware Bullard, 

both of Boston, May 22, 1844. 

61 Nathaniel H. Henchman, of Boston, to 

Anne Dana, July 10, 1844. 

62 Andrew McJearto Mrs. AnneE. Holmes, 

both of Dracut, July 12, 1844. 

63 Alpheus R. Brown to Caroline B. Var- 

num, of Dracut, Aug. 8, 1844. 

64 James L. Huntress to Harriet P. T. 

Page, Aug. 21, 1844. 

65 Isaac S. Morse, Esq., to Eloise LaBarte, 

of Groton, Sept. 26, 1844. 

66 John H. Smith to Nancy P. Jenness, 

Sept. 29, 1844. 

67 Grenville L. Remick, of Pittsfield, N. 

II., to Judith R. Stevens, Oct. 1, 1844. 

68 Levi W. Cooper to Susan K. Lincoln, 

Oct. 2, 1844. 

69 Frederick Parker, Esq., to Harriet M. 

Kimball, Oct. 3, 1844. 



70 James Stone, of Chelsea, to Harriet 

Dinsmore, Nov. 5, 1844. 

71 Charles II. Person to Nancy Stone, 

both of Chelsea, Nov. 5, 1844. 

72 Oliver E. York, of Exeter, N. H., to 

Jane Hardy, Nov. 28, 1844. 

73 Calvin P. Chamberlain to Eliza A. 

Kimball, .Jan. 1, 1845. 

74 Luther Holt to Harriet J. Kelly, March 

4, 1845. 

75 John B. Pratt, of Worcester, to Erne- 

line D. W. Curtis, March 26, 1845. 

76 Enoch B. Metoalf to Nancy R. Norton, 

April 17, 1845. 

77 William H. Hardv to Mary Jane Rus- 

sell, April 27, 1845. 

78 George W. Howe, of Lancaster, to 

Marj Am, Jenness, .May l, 1845. 

79 George E. Locke, of Boston, to Sarah 

G. Kimball, May 4, 1845. 

80 Onslow Stearns, Esq., of Nashville, N 

H. , to Mary A. Holbrook, June 26,1845. 

81 Rev. Edward J. Gerry, of Athol, to 

Sophia J. Goodwin, Sept. 2, 1845. 

82 Reuben Taylor to Julia Ann Marshall, 

both of Pelham, N. H., Oct. 8, 1845. 

83 Samuel A. Wood, of Manchester, N.JJ., 

to Martha M. Lees, Dec. 6, 1845. 

84 Francis Turner, of Stoneham, to Eliza- 

beth A. Pike, Feb. 24, 1846. 

85 Charles Nichols to Hannah Jane Mas- 

cory, May 8, 1846. 

86 William H. Foster, of Boston, to Han- 

nah G. Locke, May 26, 1846. 

87 James Jones, Jr., of Lincoln, to Lovisa 

A. P. Flint, June 8, 1846. 

88 Albert Shattuck, of Groton, to Svbel R. 

Shattuck, of Peppered, June 11, 1846. 

89 Nahum Jones, of Boston, to Lucy 

Blake, June 17, 1846. 

90 Benjamin W. Johnson to Cora Ames, 

Sept. 8, 1846. 

91 Timothy D. Taylor, of Boston, to Sarah 

E. Butterfield, Oct. 12, 1846. 

92 Richai'd Robinson to Phebe Ann Clark, 

Oct. 15, 1846. 

93 Sedgwick L. Plumer, of Gardiner, Me., 

to Anna L. Edwards, Oct. 16, 1846. 

94 Benjamin Tucker, of Andover, N. H. f 

to Eliza Lufkin, Dec. 2, 1846. 

95 Josiah Walker to Susan C. French, 

Dec. 12, 1846. 

96 Benjamin F. Holden to Almeda Emer- 

son, of Stoddard, N. H, Dec. 31, 1846. 

97 Joseph K. T. Porter, of Boston, to Ann 

E. Bacon, of Bedford, Feb. 21, 1847. 

98 Alfred Nutter to Mary E. Blake, May 4, 

1847. 

99 Aaron Scadding to Sarah C. Hill, May 

6, 1847. 

100 Matthias Parkhurst to Mrs. Mary Gib- 

son, May 9, 1847. 

101 William Wod to Elizabeth F. Kidder, 

May 16, 1847. 

102 Edward Stone to Harriet B. Scadding, 

June 6, 1847. 

103 EliFernaldto Eliza A. Felch, July 11, 

1847. 

104 Joseph M. Adams, of Boston, to Abi- 

gail A. Weed, July 13, 1847. 

105 Lorenzo D. Sargent to Harriet C. Wood- 

man, Aug. 25, 1847. 

106 Nathan F. Merrill, of Manchester, to 

Lucy C. Young, Oct. 18, 1847. 

107 Robert G. Annan to Lucinda S. Phil- 

brick, Dec. 20, 1847. 

108 Josiah Fiske, of Temple, N. II., to Re- 

becca W. Flint, March 5, 1848. 

109 Levi F. Whitney, of Pou<rhkeepsie, N. 

Y., to Roxana W. Gates, Apr. 24, 1848. 



APPENDIX NO. THREE. 103 



110 John Billings to Elizabeth G. Fifield, 

May 21, 1848. 

111 Thomas G. Douglass, of Boston, to 

Rachel E. Patrick, May 25, 1848. 

112 James Freeman Huntington, of Exeter, 

X. H., to Ellen S. Whipple, May 30, 
1848. 

113 Otis B. Bates, of Cohasset, to Mahala 

A. Harris, June 2, 1S4S. 

114 William Chandler, Esq., of Lexington, 

to Marv Labarte, June 15. 1S48. 

115 Phineas Whiting to Clara Bagley, June 

26, 1848. 

116 Charles Henrv Penn to Ellen Bovle, 

Julv 2, 1848. 

117 Benjamin Dean, Jr., Esq., to Mary Ann 

French, by Rev. Wm. Barrv, Julv 20, 
1848. 

118 James Hovle to Priscilla E. Pierce, 

Aug. 1, 1848. 

119 Asa E. Havward to Fanny C. French, 

Sept. 5, 1848. 



120 George P. Elliott to Ann Dalton Rog- 

ers, Jan. 22, 1849. 

121 Samuel W. Hunt to Charlotte A.Walker, 

Feb. 18, 1849. 

122 Prentice dishing to Dorinda Drake, 

Feb. 28, 1849. 

123 John T. Roberts, of Boston, to Helen 

C. Shedd, July 30, 1S49. 

124 Henry Wyman to Abba B. Shedd, Oct. 

23, 1849. 

125 Curtis P. Smith to Rebecca B. Warren, 
Noy. 28, 1849. 

126 J.Bowers Kimball to Augusta M.York, 

March 27, 1850. 

127 James M.Newman, of Buffalo, X. Y., 

to Ellen S. Bragg, June 27, 1850. 

128 Joel Smith to Charlotte Clark, Aug. 28, 

1850. 

129 Robert P. Burr to Nancy A. Rogers, 

both of Salem, Noy. 7, 18o0. 

130 B. F. Clarke to Sarah E. Scripture, 

Noy. 19, 1850. 



DIKING ABSENCE OF DR. MILES, IX EUROPE, 



131 James Lawton to Sarah S. Priest, Jan. 

1, 1851. 

132 Thomas Wellington to Philothea P. 

Baxter, April 2, 1851. 



133 James R. Darracott to C. Janet Wright, 

by Rev. Francis Parkman, D.D., April 
22, 1851. 

134 Paran Stevens to Marietta Reed. June 

5, 1S51, by Dr. Edson. 



AFTER THE RETURN OF DR. MITES. 



135 George B. Dane, of Boston, to Martha 

Ann'Coburn, Oct. 9, 1851. 

136 Samuel Schofield to Elizabeth Ker- 

shaw, Oct. 31, 1851. 

137 Avery Wellington , of Boston, to Martha 

L. Kidder, Dec. 17, 1851. 

138 Supply C. Wilson to Laura J. Chandler, 

both of Chelmsford, Dec. 24, 1851. 

139 Silas Deeds to Martha A. Stevens, Mav 

9, 1852. 

140 Thomas Pavson, of Dorchester, to Me- 
linda P. Blake, May 13, 1852. 



141 Ebenezer F. Corbin, of Charlestown, N. 

H. , to Ann Pushaw, May 28, 1852. 

142 Benjamin Kittredge, of Cincinnati, O., 

to Lucy Dana, bv Rev. Wm. Barrv, 
Sept. 7, 1852. 

143 John Smith to Hannah Haft'alin, Jan. 

I, 1853. 

144 Elisha Stone to Olivia P. Eastman, Jan. 

13, 1853. 

145 William Avervto Susan Garland, April 

11, 1853. 

146 Edwin Jaflin, of Corinth, Yt., to Eliza 

W. Ford, of Newbnrg,Yt.,Mav26,1858. 



BETWEEN THE MINISTRIES OF DR. MITES AND MR. TEBBETS. 



Moses G. Howe, Esq., to Lydia W. Yar- 
num, by Rev. Moses Howe, Aug. 2, 
1853. 

George B. Fowle to Elizabeth R. Fuller- 
tonkin East Boston, bv Rev. W. H. 
Cudworth, Aug. 3, 1853. 

Ithamar W. Beard, Esq., to Abba W. 
Mansnr, by Rev. B. K. Pierce, of Rox- 
burv, Jan. 3. 1^4. 

John H. McAlvin, Esq., to Nellie M. 

Ives, by Rev. H. A. Miles, D.D., of 

Boston, Jan. 4, 1854. 
D. Bradford Bartlett, Esq.. to Rebecca 

Dana, bv Rev. G. W. Briggs, D.D., of 

Salem, March 15, 1854. 



Henry Abbott to Nancy A. Havward, 

by J. A. Knowles, Esq', April 19, 1854. 
George F. Richardson, Esq., to Caroline 

A. Reed, by Rev. H. A. Miles, D.D., of 

Boston, June 8, 1854. 
Henry 0. Morse to Marie L. Russell, by 

Rev." A. P. Peabody, of Portsmouth, 

March 7, 1855. 

David L. Woods to Sarah B. Little, in 
Hingham, by Rev. J. Richardson, June 
17, 1855. 



BY MR. TEBBETS. 

1 Harvey A. Whiting, of Wilton, X. H., to Mary E. Kimball, Sept. 20, 1855. 

BETWEEN MINISTRIES OF MR. TEBBETS AND MR. HINCKLEY. 



Eben K. Sanborn to Harriet W. Avery, 
bv Rev. H. A. Miles, D.D., of Boston, 
Oct. 10, 1855. 



2 Elias Chellis to Serena M. Odiorne, in 
Exeter, by Rev. L. W. Leonard, D.D., 
Oct. 14, 1856. 



104 



APPENDIX NO. THREE. 



1 Rev. Joseph Hemphill to Hannah O. I 

Rogers, by Hon. N. Crosby, Jan. 27, 
1857. 

2 George W. Brown to Christiana P. Col- 

ton, April 30, 1857. 

3 Capt. Thus. W. Hendee to Augusta E. 

Tuck.by Rev. T. B. Thayer.May 1-2,1857. 

4 Charles B. Scadding to Phe'be Ann 

Stacy, July 12, 1857. 

5 Russell L. Hams to Susan A. Fuller, 

Oct. 5, 1858. 

6 Georye E. Alden, of Dedham, to Eliza 

A. Trott, Oct. 14, 1858. 

7 Henrv T. Hart to Lizzie G. Shedd, Oct. 

28, 1858. 

8 William Win nek to Sarah Page, April 

9, 1859. 

9 Sidnev Spalding to Mrs. Harriet M. 

Parker, May 19, 1859. 

10 C. C. Hutchinson, Esq., to Julia M. Al- 

len, in Orange, N. J., bv Rev. O. B. I 
Frothingham, May 24, 1859. 

11 George F. Penniman to Mary A. McAl- 

vin, May 25, 1859. 

12 William H. Yinev, of Petersburg, X. Y., 

to Melinda Bird, June 27, 1859 (di- 
vorced). 

13 Ephraim Hartwell to Almira J. C. Rus- 

sell, by Rev. L. J. Fletcher, Oct. 3, 1859. 

14 John E* Alden, of Dedham, to Eleanor 

C. Trott, Nov. 3, 1859. 

15 Thaddeus P. Robinson, of Newton, to 

Fanny R. Smith, of Middlesex Yillage, 
June 6, 1860. 



: OF MR. HINCKLEY. 

16 Nathan M. Wright to Mrs. Diana R. 

Smith, July 5, 1860. 

17 Moses D. Colby to Sarah W. Fuller, 

April 16, 1861. 

18 George A. Rowe to Abby A. Billings, 

June 6, 1861. 

19 Hamilton Burrage to Marv H. Davis, by 

Rev. J. J. Twiss, Oct. 2, "1861. 

20 Peder Olsen, of Boston, to lugerborg J. 

Anderson, Nov. 14, 1861. 

21 Charles A. Sawtelle to Charlotte A. 

Scadding, May 31, 1862. 

22 Charles Darrow, of Boston, to Elizabeth 

French, Juue 15, 1862. 

23 Chas. E. A. Bartlelt, Esq., of Chelms- 

ford, to Harriet M. Cooper, Sept. 6, 
1862. 

24 John H. Harwood to Clara W. Howe. 

Sept. 14, 1862. 

25 Capt. Thos. W. Hendee to Marv Ellen 

Tuck, Dy Rev. J. J. Twiss, Jan. 20, 
1863. 

26 H. A. Johnson to Clara M. Elliott, April 

3, 1863. 

27 William G. Mansur to Marv J. Sprague, 

Oct. 8, 1863. 

28 Daniel Dewey, of Williamstown, to 

Marv A. Adam-, of North Chelms- 
ford, April 28, 1864. 

29 Arthur E. Bowers to Catharine J. 

French, May 16, 1864. 



BETWEEN MINISTRIES OF MR. HINCKLEY AND MR. GRINNELL. 



1 Thos. Gardner to Lucv Cromwell, by 

Hon. J. A. Knowles, Oct. 6, 1864. 

2 Jefferson A. Knowles to Fanny 31. 

Tower, by Rev. J. J. Twiss, Nov. 8, 
1864. 

3 Frank H. Kimball to Mary A. C. Trott, 

Nov. 10, 1864. 

4 Chas. J. H. Ness to Jennie E. Perkins, 

by J. H. McAlvin, Esq., Nov. 24, 1864. 1 



5 John Q. A. Hubbard to A bra J. Foss, 

by Rev. J. J. Twiss, Aug. 3, 1865. 

6 Albert C. Wilkins to Sarah J. Howe, 

Dec. 25, 1866. 

7 Edward K. Talbot to Eliza J. Jaques, by 

Rev. A. McKeown, March 6, 1867. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. GRINNELE. 



1 George F. Sawtell to Fanny Garland, 

March 27, 1867. 

2 Stephen Cutter to Mrs. Harriet A. 

Shedd, Mav 7, 1867. 

3 Alfred P. Lvman to Ida M. Nichols, 

Mav 14, 1S67. 

4 Horatio R. Fletcher to Fannie M. 

Knapp, June 6, 1867. 

5 Zabud T. White, of Winchester, to 

Lydia V. Shedd, of Woburn, June 6, 
1S67. 

6 Geonre William Sargent to Ellen F. 

Hodgdon, June 13, 1867. 

7 Alexander R. McAlpine to Ella S. Rip- 

ley, Sept. 10, 1867. 
S Moses G. Howe, Esq., to Mary B. Yar- 

num, Oct. 10, 1867. 
9 Jerome F. Manning, Esq., to Ingerborg 

Christina Erland, Jan. 1, 1868. 

10 Edward Harding, of Gorham, Me., to 

Iza A. Carleton, of Pelham, N. H., 
Feb. 12, 1868. 

11 Weslev R. Batchelder to Rosina Whit- 

hed,"by Rev. J. J. Twiss, May 20, 1868. 



12 George C. Barr to Maria F. Brown, June 

11, 1868. 

13 W. Frederick Marvel to Dora A. Liv- 

ingston, of Tewksbury, Oct. 15, 1868. 

14 Joseph W. Gardner to Mary A. Emery, 

both of Lawrence, Oct. 19, 1868. 

15 Horace B. Coburn to Harriet B. Nes- 

mith, by Rev. F. Hincklev, Oct. 29, 
1868. 

16 John H. Crocker, of Tewksbury, to 

Sarah E. Baker, Nov. 17, 1868. 

17 Nicholas B. Uhler. of Philadelphia, to 

Frances E. Lawson, Dec. 17, 1868, by 
Rev. F. Hinckley. 

18 H. Clinton Davis to M. Eleanor Blodgett, 

both of Tvngsboroujdi, Dec. 30, 1868. 

19 Geonre E. Thomas, of Boston, to Eliza- 

beth Barnes, of Salem, July 11, 1869. 

20 John A. Knowles, Jr., to Susan M. 

Baldwin, Oct. 14, 1869. 

21 Samuel Young to Sarah T. Newell, of 

Dracut, Oct. 28, 1869. 



APPENDIX NO. THREE. 



105 



BETWEEN THE MINISTRIES OF MR. GRINNELL AND MR. BLANCHARD. 



1 Edwin A. Coffin to Carrie H. Rich- 

mond, by Rev. Mr. Richmond, Oct. 21, 
1S69. 

2 Frederic Grant, of Boston, to Lilla Law- 

son, by Rev. C.E. Grinnell, of Charles- 
town, Nov. 17, 1S69. 

3 Edward Gale, of Chicago, 111., to Isabel 

Adams, of North Chelmsford, by Rev. 
C. E. Grinnell, of Charlestown, Jan. 
25, 1870. 



I Charles E. Coburn, of Chicago, 111., to 
Lilian J. Putnam, by Rev. C. E. Grin- 
nell, of Charlestown, Feb. 9, 1870. 

5 George A. Hills to Ellen S. Fellows, by 

Rev. F. Hinckley, April 28, 1870. 

6 Henry C. Cooper to Caroline Garland, 

by Rev. C. E. Grinnell, May 11, 1870. 

7 Richard W. Baker to Mary A. Worcester, 

June 16, 1S70. 

8 J. B. Goodwin to Ellen J. Cooper, Sept. 

6, 1S70. 



DURING- THE MINISTRY OF MR. BLANCHARD. 



1 Alonzo A. Coburn to Elizabeth Coburn, 

April 21, 1871. 

2 Coolidge R. Johnson to Emma O. Chur- 

chill, May 18, 1871. 

3 James K. Goodhue to Helen Kimball, 

July 26, 1871. 

4 Francis A. Nichols to Isabelle Perkins 

Horn, Julv 26, 1871. 

5 X. W. Apple ton to Ella Wood, by Rev. 

H. Wood, Aug. 31, 1871. 

6 Eugene S. Hvlan to Esther J. Holt, Sept. 

14, 1871. 

7 Henrv A. Miles, D.D., to Elizabeth 

Trowbridge Wright, Oct. 13, 1871. 

8 David Henrv Bradt to Mary M. Wright, 

Nov. 22, 1871. 

9 Frank Gray to Sarah E. Collinge, Dec. 

4, 1871. 

10 George D. Noves to Susan P. Wright, 
June 19, 1872. 



11 Charles A. Marshall to M. Ella Pills- 

bury, Aug. 15, 1872. 

12 Rev. "F. K. Frothingham to Lois R. 

Wright, in Greenfield, bv Rev. Dr. 
Hall, Sept. 4, 1S72. 

13 John N. Proal to Deborah Stoddard, 

Sept. 24, 1872. 

14 Wm. Arthur Stockman to Charlotte A. 

Lam son, Sept. 25, 1S72. 

15 Fred. T. Greeuhalge, Esq., to Isabelle 

Nesmith, Oct. 1, 1S72. 

16 John Bell Bouton, Esq., of New York 

City, to Eliza J. B. Nesmith, Dec. 14, 
1S72. 

17 John W. Reed, Esq., to Adelia C. Saw- 

yer, by Rev. E. Reed, Dec. 24, 1872. 

IS Ebenezer W. Knowlton to Olive Board- 
man, Feb. 1, 1873. 

19 Frank E. Rice to Annie C. Thomas, 
May 6, 1873. 



BETWEEN THE MINISTRIES OF MR. BLANCHARD AND MR. SEWARD. 



1 Charles M. Aver to Marietta Coburn, bv 

Rev. Henry" Blanchard, Sept. 2, 1S73. 

2 Nelson Brown to Addie N. Willard, by 

Rev. Crawford Nightingale, Nov. 27, 
1873. 

3 J. Tyler Stevens to Alice N. Coburn, by 

ReV. Henry Blanchard, Dec. 3, 1873. ' 

4 Miller C. Baldwin to Louise A. Rnowles, 

by Rev. A. P. Peabodv, D.D., Dec. 10, 
1873. 



5 Wm. Banks to Luella Brown, by Rev. G. 

T. Flanders, D.D., May 27, 1874. 

6 Frank P. Putnam to Mrs. Eliza P. Tal- 

bot, by Rev. Henrv Blanchard, June 1, 
1874. 

7 Henry M. Knowles to Alice Leslie Ap- 

pleton, bv Rev. Nathaniel Hall, D.D., 
Oct. 21, 1874. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. SEWARD, TO JUNE, 1S80. 



1 George Wright to Olive W. Bean, Feb. 

17,1875. 

2 Thomas Nesmith, Esq., to Florence 

Hildreth, in German v, March 23, 1S75. 

3 Richard H. Ewart, of New York City, to 

Fanny M. Talbot, April 29, 1875. 

4 John Eugene Cheney to Ellen M. Neal, 

of Lynn, May 12, 1875. 

5 Arthur B. Homer, of Galveston, Tex., 

to Alice M. Patch, June 22, 1875. 

6 Landon Adams to S. Lizzie Dean, of 

Manchester, N. H., Julv 1, 1875. 

7 Walter L. Baker to Georgetta Hobbs, of 

Haverhill, Sept. 7, 1875. 
S Daniel Knapp, Esq., to Mrs. Jane B. 

Hovt, March 4, 1876. 
9 George H. Blanchard to Clara E. Fiske, 

June 21, 1876. 

10 Charles Spalding, of New Ipswich, N. 

H., to Emma W. Follansbee, of An- 
dover, Julv 24, 1S76. 

11 John Y. Cressv, of Manchester, N. H., 

to Laura Mclntire, Sept. 28, 1876. 



12 Frederic F. Rowe, of Wabasha, Minn., 

to Effa H. Marriott, Nov. 8, 1876. 

13 Horace B. Coburn to Marv Eliza Fel- 

lows, Dec. 6, 1876. 

14 Frank W. Card to Susan B. Moulton, of 

Manchester, N. H., April 17, 1S77. 

15 Stephen Cutter to Mrs. Sylvina J. 

French, June 21, 1S77. 

16 Edwin H. Lord to Julia S. Bennett, Nov. 

1, 1877. 

17 Arthur F. Salmon to Lizzie F. Lang, 

April 18, 1S7S. 

18 Chas. Henry Huston, of Concord, to 

Sarah E. Spaulding, of Concord, Julv 
9, 1S78. 

19 Michael Kennev to Kate L. Sullivan, 

both of Worce'ster, Oct. 19, 187S. 

20 Frank P. Haynes, of Dover, N. H., to 

Christina Stewart, Nov. 28, 1S78. 

21 Royal Wison Dix to Mary A. Marshall, 

both of East Chelmsford, Dec. 25,1878. 



14 



106 



APPENDIX NO. THREE. 



22 Eugene G. Thome to Marcella M. La- 

verien (called Patten), in Worcester, 
by Rev. H. Blanchard, April 19, 1879. 

23 Albert D. Wright to Blanche McAlvin, 

June 11 1879. 

24 Edwin H. Lincoln, of Brookline, to 

Isabelle Anderson, June 19, 1879. 
2:1 Hapgood Wright, Esq., to Sarah Gates, 
July 15, 1879. 

26 Henry H. Noyes to Marion W. Stevens, 

by Rev. H. C. Duganne, Oct. 23, 1879. 

27 Harry E. Bean to Mary Jane Carrie, 

Dec. 25, 1879. 



28 Joseph Bowers to Mary Jane Toland, 

Dec. 31, 1879. 

29 Daniel Willie Parker to Luna Adella 

Frederic, Jan. 1, 1880. 

30 Josiah C. Rollins, of Deny, N. H., to 

Marietta Howe, of Manchester, N. H., 
April 20, 1880. 

31 Charles Dana Palmer to Rowena Ilil- 

dreth, Mav 20, 1880. 

32 Frank T. Whitney to Helen P. Bradt, 

June 2, 1880. 

33 Dr. George B. Howard, of Waterville, 

Me., to Hattie A. Hoar, June 2, 1880. 



MARRIAGES AT LEE STREET CHURCH. 



1 Edward Hutchins to Abbv W. Lincoln, 

April 30, 1846. 

2 Wm. A. Smith to Hannah G. Stevens, 

Aug. 26, 1846. 

3 George Harper to Rosannah K. Harper, 

Oct. 26, 1 846. 



BY ME. NILES. 

1 



Joseph T. Whitcomb, of Litlleton, to 
Hannah M. Cox, Nov. :-!, 1846. 
5 F. H. Nourse, Esq., to Harriet Parker, 
by Rev. Uriah Burnap, May 12, 1847. 



BY REV. WILLIAM BARRY. 



1 Daniel Thompson to Susan D. Brad- 

street, Oct. 19, 1847. 

2 Ransom M. Robv to Minerva Jane 

Moulton, Mav 3, 1848. 

3 Marshall Eaton to Nancy M. Phelps, 

June 28, 1848. 

4 Benjamin Dean, Jr., Esq., to Mary Ann 

French, July 20, 1S48. 

5 Merrill I. Hunt to Mary A. Richardson, 

Mav 23, 1850. 

6 Willard C. Welch to Sarah F. Jennings, 

June 9, 1850. 

7 Benjamin Joyal to Harriet H. Bowers, 

July 4, 1850. 

8 Wm. P. Treadwell to Mrs. Elizabeth 

Howe, July 6, 1850. 

9 Dustin Marble to Adaline I. Heath, of 

Nashua, N. H., July 27, 1850. 

10 Orrin Dav to Mary P. Hutchins, Oct. 3, 

1850. 

11 Henry Nichols to Hannah Crocker, Oct. 

16, 1850. 

12 Wm. Underwood to Emma Corbet, Nov. 

14,1850. 

13 Charles B. McDuffe to Laura B. Durgin, 

Nov. 26, 1850. 

14 Joseph C. Fifield, of Clinton, to Caro- 

line K. Diamond, of Peterborough, 
N. H., Dec. 3, 1850. 

15 James W. Bradv to Martha W. Mason, 

of Baltimore, Md., Dec. 25, 1850. 

16 Edward C. Bryant, of Manchester, N. 

II., to Betsey W. Robinson, Feb. 17, 
1851. 

17 Arthur P. Bonney, Esq., to Emeline A. 

Call, Sept. 5, 1851. 



IS Horace B. Morse, of Bath, N. II., to 
Elizabeth Page, Sept. 24, 1851. 

19 Samuel P. Griffin to Caroline Eaton, 

both of Framingham, Sept. 28, 1851. 

20 George P. Taylor, of Sterling, to Caro- 

line D. Roper, of Princeton, Nov. 27, 
1851. 

21 Elmore Dane to Mrs. Sophia Cochran, 

both of Andover, Nov. 30, 1851. 

22 John E. Pitts, of Candia, N. H., to Abi- 

gail Fifield, April 17, 1852. 

23 John H. Burns to Sarah A. Havward, 

April 18, 1852. 

24 Nathaniel I. Woodward to Maria H. 

Samson, May 2, 1852. 

25 Albert Perrin'to Mary I. Whitney, May 

2, 1852. 

26 Charles C Clark to Catharine Dennison, 

June 1, 1852. 

27 Walter Bates, of Boston, to Janette 

Whittaker, June 5, 1852. 

28 William C. Chadbourne to Hannah M. 

Dunham, both of Bath, Me., July 11, 
1852. 

29 Thomas Cummings, of Westford, to Mrs. 

Maria Badger, July 21, 1852. 

30 Benjamin Kittredge, of Cincinnati, O., to 

Lucy Dana, Sept. 7, 1852. 

31 Joseph Bush to Angeline P. Howe, Oct. 

23, 1852. 

32 James F. Ward, of Lawrence, to Han- 

nah E. Ladd, of Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 
15, 1852. 

33 Roland I. G. Whitcher, of Lawrence, to 

Marcia B. Cross, Jan. 28, 1853. 

34 Patrick Murphy to Mrs. Eliza Bailey, 

Sept. 1, 1S53. 



BY REV. AUGUSTUS WOODBURY. 



Wm. A. Lamb to Helen Cross, Aug. 11, 
1853. 

George G. Batchelder, of Northwood, 
N. H., to Amanda J. Davis, of New- 
market, N. H., Jan. 17, 1S54. 



W. F. G. Pierce to J. E. Holcomb, Jan. 
22, 1854. 

Julius E. Conant, of Elmira, N. Y., to 
Laura M. Batchelder, Feb. 23, 1854. 



APPENDIX NO. THREE, 



107 



5 Elias C. Ayer to Mary J. Reed, March 

4, 1S54. 

6 Ira G. Richardson to Sarah K. Dunn, 

May 30, 1854. 

7 James T. Fisher, of Boston, to Emma B. 

Guild, June 21, 1851. 

8 Simeon L. Hildreth to Jane H. Miller, 

Sept. 27, 1854. 

9 Fisher A. Wilder, of Charlestown, to 

Lydia M. Hayford, Nov. 11, 1854. 

10 Marshall E. Thompson to Harriet J. 

Burns, Nov. 23, 1854. 

11 Haskell H. Bancrolt, of Reading, to 

Abby Walker, Dec. 6, 1854. 

12 Henry E. Adams, of Cleveland, O., to 

Sarah J. Coburn, Dec. 9, 1854. 

13 Francis E. Wolstenholme to Elizabeth 

I. Churchill, Feb. 15, 1855. 

14 Samuel Eaton to Justina A. Howe, 

March 10, 1855. 

15 Levi F. Green to Sybil Nutting, of West- 

ford, March 19, 1855. 

16 Daniel C. Sayles to Frances A. Wey- 

mouth, March 21, 1855. 

17 Andrew J. Wait, of Boston, to Sarah J. 

Noyes, March 25, 1855. 

18 Charles Duganne, of Methuen, to Mary 

Kelly, July 4, 1855. 

19 Henry A. Coburn to Rhoda P. Lindsey, 

of Chelmsford, Sept. 6, 1855. 

20 Dennison S. Kimball to Emma W. Ken- 

dall, Sept. 20, 1855. 

21 Albe C. Clark to Josephine Varney, Oct. 

1, 1855. 

22 Roswell Burnham to Sarah B. Osgood, 

Oct. 1, 1855. 

23 Wilhelm Lundberg, of Newburyport, to 

Hattie M. Pierce, Nov. 1, 1855. 

24 Frank L. Prince, of Manchester, N. H., 

to Louisa M. Durgin, Nov. 4, 1855. 

25 George W. Adams to Emily E. Butters, 

Dec. 24, 1855. 

26 George W. Hinds, of New York City, to 

Mary E. Brooks, Dec. 25, 1855. 



BY REV. JOHN 

1 Erastus Stearns to Mary Ann Hager, of I 
Watertown, April 3, 1858. I 



BY KEY. WM. 

1 Henry Martin to Elizabeth A. Davis, 

Nov. 24, 1859. 

2 Benjamin II. Peavey, of Farmington, 

N. H., to Mary E. Dame, April 4, 1860. 

3 George W. Howe, of East Corinth, Me., 

to Valeria S. Tozier, of Hudson, Me., 
June 18, 1860. 

4 Edward S. Winchester, of Natick, to 

Mary R. Newell, June 27, I860. 



27 Joseph P. Thompson to Adelaide Bil- 

lings, Dec. 31, 1855. 

28 John Bickford to Louisa G. Courier, 

Jan. 8, 1856. 

29 Henry T. Dunbar, of Nahant, to Mary 

W. Robinson, Jan. 11, 1856. 

30 George N. Bird, of West Amesbury, to 

Emma H. Ward, Jan. 17, 1856. 

31 Will. H. Lawrence to Carrie C. Kenney, 

Feb. 7, 1856. 

32 Dexter Symonds to Arabella M. Clos- 

son, May 6, 1856. 

33 Freeman Flanders, of Lawrence, to 

Lois Badger, May 10, 1856. 

34 Charles Hamilton to Sarah C. Valen- 

tine, May 10, 1856. 

35 Samuel E. Woolcott to Lavonia Farrar, 

May 12, 1856. 

36 Abraham G. Jones, of Concord, N. H., 

to Helen A . Edwards, of Manchester, 
N. H., June 10, 1856. 

37 Leonard Richards to Dorothy A. Batch- 

elder, both of Lawrence, June 20, 1856. 

38 Joseph B. Collins to Emily H. Nourse, 

both of Lawrence, June 21, 1856. 

39 Hilan Doe to Philena C. D. Grant, both 

of Lawrence, July 23, 1856. 

40 Albert M. Whitfield to Sarah H. Emery, 

both of Lawrence, Sept. 2, 1856. 

41 Henry C. Fiske to Nelly Clark, of Law- 

rence, Nov. 7, 1856. 

42 George W. Varnum to Catharine IL 

Tebbets, Nov. 18, 1856. 

43 George Going to Hattie A. Sprague, Jan. 

1, 1857. 

44 George H. Favor to Julia S. Cady, Jan. 

1, 1857. 

45 William Burrows to Ann Marston, Jan. 

22, 1857. 

46 George Foster, of Boston, to Dollie E. 

Whitcher, Feb. 25, 1857. 

47 Thomas J. Wheeler to Augusta A. Proc- 

tor, March 3, 1857. 



B. K ARC HER. 

2 Frederic Bryant to Mary Hapgood, both 
of Petersham, June 23, 1858. 



C. TENNEY. 

5 Richard P. Atkinson to Laura T. Brown, 

Aug. 7, 1860. 

6 Leroy C. Hall, of Boston, to Mary E. 

Lee, of Dracut, Nov. 29, 1860. 

7 R. II. Call, of North Am lover, to Sarah 

E. J. Currier, of Wihnot, N. 11., March 
20, 1861. 



DEATHS. 



BEFORE THE ORDINATION OF MR. BARRY. 



1 Sept. 22, 1829, Henry Augustus, son of 

Abner Ball, 3. 

2 Sept. 24, 1829, George Frederic, son of 

Abner Ball, 2. 



3 April 21, 1830, child of J. B. Straw, 16 
months. 



DURING MINISTRY - OF MR. BARRY. 

[In Mr. Barry's ministry funerals are recorded instead of deaths, wherever the letter F 
occurs, which is in most cases.] 



1 Aug. 14, 1830, J. B. Straw, father of ex- 

Gov. Straw, of New Hampshire, 37. 

2 Nov. 24, 1830, Everett, son of John Cush- 

ing, 2. F. 

3 Dec. 30, 1830, Hazeltine, 30. F. 

4 April 16, 1831, infant child of Edward 

Livermore. F. 

5 April 10, 1831, Caroline, daughter of 

John Bowers, 1 year. F. 

6 July 5, 1831, child of a Mr. Barker. F. 

7 August 11, 1831, Adaline, wife of Frank- 

lin Farrar, 22. 

8 Aug. 13, 1831, infant child of Abel 

Merriam. F. 

9 Nov. 6, 1831, Clara, daughter of James 

G. Carney, Esq., 2. 

10 Dec. 24, 1831, Jesse Parker, 37. 

11 Feb. 28, 1832, a Mr. Hoyt, 46. F. 

12 March 15, 1832, Mary Jane, daughter of 

Francis Hobbs, 2. F. 

13 March 28, 1832, Mrs. Abigail Sampson, 

22. F. 

14 April 29, 1832, child of Samuel Brigham, 

2. F. 

15 July 3, 1832, child of Andrew Lewis. F. 

16 July 5, 1832, Augusta Maria, child of 

Wm. Austin. 3. F. 

17 Sept. 25, 1832, Harriet Frances, daughter 

of Haskell Spalding, 1 year. F. 

18 Sept. 28, 1832, Caroline Augusta, daugh- 

ter of Haskell Spalding, 5. F. 

19 Oct. 17, 1832, John Webb, 49. F. 

20 Oct. 22, 1832, Mrs. Sarah Lovering, 

widow, 32. F. 

21 Nov. 15, 1832, infant child of Isaac Scrip- 

ture. F. 

22 Nov. 20, 1832, Wm. Hardy, 74. F. 

23 »Nov. 30, 1832, Isaac, son of Isaac An- 

thony, 2. F. 

24 Jan. 18, 1833, child of a Mr. Upton, 2 

months. F. 

25 Jan. 21, 1833, Josiah J. Bent, 21. 



26 Feb. 9, 1833, Alice Newhall, 88. F. 

27 Feb. 13, 1833, Julian A., son of B. Walk- 

er, 3. F. 

28 March 2, 1833, daughter of J. Nesmith, 

4. F. 

29 March 12, 1833, Peleg S.Tompkins, 27. F. 

30 April 29, 1833, Charlotte, daughter of 

Abiel Abbot, 2. F. 

31 May 6, 1833, infant child of Rufus Paul, 

2 months. F. 

32 June 8, 1833, child of Ezekiel Morrill, 2. 

F. 

33 June 24, 1833, Mary Louisa, daughter of 

Dix Fletcher. 

34 July 2, 1833, Mrs. Merrill, of Bel videre. F. 

35 July 17, 1833, Clara L., daughter of Wm. 

Austin, 2. F. 

36 July 26, 1833, Charles, son of John Bow- 

ers, drowned, 10. F. 

37 Aug. 4, 1833, Alfren, son of A. H. Bob- 

in son, 1 month. 

38 August, 1833, Miranda, wife of Augustus 

Hunt. F. 

39 Aug. 7, 1833, Frances Eliza, daughter of 

Dix Fletcher. F. 

40 August, 1833, an infant of a Mr. Mat- 

thewson. F. 

41 August, 1833, Simon Parker. F. 

42 Sept. 2, 1833, Freeman Huggins, 28. F. 

43 Sept. 2, 1833, Emily Jane, daughter of 

James Whipple. F. 

44 Sept. 6, 1833, George W. Whipple, 26. F. 

45 Sept. 12, 1833, Asa Hatch, 32. F. 

46 Dec. 22, 1833, a son of John Locke, 

drowned in Canton River. 

47 Jan. 17, 1834, infant child of E. B. Patch, 

2 days. F. 

48 January, 1834, infant child of a Mr. 

Packard. 

49 March 31, 1834, child of Dr. Hildreth, of 

Dracut, 3. F. 

50 April 23, 1834, Zopher Jones, 35. F. 



APPENDIX NO. FOUR. 



109 



51 May 13, 1S34, John Adams, of Dracut, 

56. F. 

52 May 20, 1834, Mary Ann Elizabeth, wife 

ot" Win. Newman, 21. F. 

53 Julv, 1S34, the mother of Elizabeth Has- 

kell, 80. 

5i July, 1834, child of a Mr. Thompson. 

55 Jnfv, 1834, child of a Mr. Guild. 

56 July, 1834, child of George Dodge, 2. 

57 July 15, 1S34, Abigail, daughter of Jon- 

athan Perry, 8 months. 
5S Aug. 7, 1834, child of Wm. Grav, 1 rear. F. 

59 Aug. 9, 1834, infant child of Alston Allen. 

60 Aug. 12, 1834, child of Zacheus Shed, 9 

-weeks. F. 

61 Aug. 15, 1S34, child of Eli Cooper, Suf- 

folk Corporation, 11 months. F. 

62 Aug. 23, 1834, Caroline Brooks, 26; on a 

visit to LoAvell. 

63 Aug. 24, 1834, child of Hazen Elliot, 3. F. 

64 Sept. 2, 1834, Jonathan Parker, of Dra- 

cut. F. 

65 Sept. 4, 1834, Charles, son of John Nes- 

mith, 12 months. F. 

66 Sept. 5, 1834, Luther French, Jr., 28. F. 

67 Sept. 5, 1834, child of Samuel Morey, 14 

months. F. 

68 Sept. 16, 1834, child of Otis Bullard. 

69 Sept. 17, 1834, Frederic, son of Danforth 

Atherton, 14 months. F. 

70 Sept. 22, 1834, child of a Mr. Pierce, of 

BiDerica, 10 months. F. 

71 Sept. 25, 1S34, child of Cyrus Frost, 4 

months. F. 

72 Sept. 27, 1834, Mary A., twin child of 

John X. Sumner, io months. F. 



73 Sept. 27, 1834, Samuel B. Appleton, for- 

merly of Portsmouth, 24. F. 

74 Oct. 11, 1834, child of a Mr. Sawtell. F. 

75 Oct. 26, 1834, infant child of a Mr. Fiske, 

Suffolk Corporation. F. 

76 Oct. 31, 1834, infant child of Cyrus 

Farrar. F. 

77 Nov. 9, 1834, Sarah Gotham, Tremont 

Corp., 20. F. 
7S Nov. 8, 1834, Frederick Folsom, 30. 

79 Xov. 22, 1834, Marv, daaghter of Aaron 

Mansur, 6. F. 

80 Dec,19,lS34, Henrv Pelham, ) Twin infant 
SI " " " JohnDalton, ] children of 

Pelham W. Warren. 
82 Dec. 27. 1834, Henrv, son of Grosvenor 
Buttrick, 3. 

53 Jan. 11, 1S35, Gertrude, daughter of Sam- 

uel A. Cob urn, 2. 

54 Jan. 13, 1835, infant son of Perez Fuller, 

3 months. 

85 Jan. 22, 1835, Aaron Souther, 17. 

86 March 3, 1835, Harriet, wife of Abner 

Eittredge, 25. 

87 March 13, 1835, Jeremiah Chase, 34. 

55 March 17, 1835, Albert Henry, son of 

Weld Spalding, 1 vear. 
S9 March 20, 1835, infant child of Charles 
C. Nichols. 

90 April 9, 1835, infant child of Joseph 

Souther, 4 weeks. 

91 April 24, 1835, Elizabeth A., wife of 

Perez Fuller, 28. 

92 April 26, 1835, infant of Dix Fletcher. 

93 May 12, 1835, Sarah E. Bradburn, IS mos. 



BETWEEN THE MINISTRIES OF MR. BARRY AND DR. MILES. 



Aug. 29, 1S35, child of Poland Lvman. 
Jan. 31, 1836, Jane H. Robinson, 2. 
April 13, 1836, Abigail, daughter of Isaac 

Scripture, 9 months. 
April 30, 1836, Lvdia Adams, at Elisha 

Fuller's, S7. 
July 8, 1836, child of Moses Whittier. 
Sept. 21, 1836, Eliza T., wife of John 

Nesmith, 30. 



7 Oct. 9, 1836, child of Dea. Isaac Scrip- 

ture, 2 months. 

8 Oct. 19, 1836, child of John Clark, 6 mos. 

9 Nov. 6, 1S36, Esther Holt, 50. 

10 Nov. IS, 1836, Eleanor Bridges, daughter 

of Samuel A. Coburn, 14. 

11 Nov. 30, 1836, Sophronia, wife of Oliver 

31. Whipple, 42. 



1 Dec. 18. 1836, child of Abner Kittredge. I 

2 March 3, 1S37, Abigail Babb, operative J 

on the Merrimack, 20. 

3 March 23, 1837. Chas. H., son of El- 

bridge G. Wright, 14 months. 

4 April 5, 1837, Artemas Young, 57. 

5 May 21, 1S37, Sarah A., (laughter of Ed- 

mund Stevens, 4. 

6 July 28, 1S37, Henry Clay, son of Isaac 

Cooper, 4. 

7 Aug. 4, 1837, Wm. Austin, son of Mr. 

H. Hatch, 2. 

8 Aug. S, 1837, Mrs. Frances, wife of the 

late Hon. Fisher Ames, 74. 

9 Sept. IS, 1837, Zacheus Bobbins, 30. 

10 Nov. 10, 1S37, George Salmon, son of 

Salmon Stone, 3. 

11 Nov. 24, 1837, Emeline, daughter of Al- 

exander Wright, 14 months. 

12 Jan. 12, 1S3S, Ursula, wife of I. M. 

Marston, 34. 

13 Jan. 13, 1838, Richard, son of widow 

Ann Howard, 17, drowned. 

14 Feb. 8, 1838, Edward Augustus, son of j 

Simeon Spaulding, 4. 

15 Feb. 26, 1S3S, Jane Ermina, daughter of | 

John G. Locke, Esq., 6 months. 



r OF DR. MILES. 

16 J uly 7, 1S38, Henry, son of Dea. Isaac 

Scripture, 6 months. 

17 Julv 25, 1838, Elizabeth, wile of Albert 

Mallard, 22. 
IS Aug. 6, 1S38, child of Josiah Gates. 

19 August, 1S3S, Maria Theresa, daughter 

of John Adams. 

20 Sept. S, 1838, Elizabeth, daughter of 

Charles B. Coburn, 5 months. 

21 Sept. 12, 1S38, Henry B., son of Lewis 

Cutting, 17 months. 

22 Sept. 25, 1838, child of Mr. David Gove, 

9 months. 

23 Dec. 15, 1S3S, George, son of John 

Waugh, 9 months. 

24 Jan. 15, 1S39, Rebecca A., daughter of 

B. F. Varnum, 6 months. 

25 Jan. 18, 1839, Edward Eugene, son of 

Joseph Butterfield, IS months. 

26 Jan. 18, 1839. child of Roland Lvman. 

27 March 5. 1839. Albert, son of Mrs. Bet- 

sey Webb, 17. 

28 March, 1839, William, son of Jonathan 

White. 

29 April 17, 1839, Hon. Luther Lawrence, 

60. Killed bv a fall in a mill. 

30 April 30, 1839, Hamlin Davis, 38. 



110 



APPENDIX NO. FOUK. 



63 



June 8, 1839, Esther B., wife of Danforth 
Athcrton, 38. 

June 15, 1839, Hepzibah Bridge, 32. 

July 29, 1S39, Frederick K., son of Jona- 
than White, 17 months. 

Aug-. 14, 1839, Susan, wife of Bernice S. 
Hall, 18. 

Aug. 16, 1839, Elvira Patterson, 15. 

Sept. 1, 1839, infant child of John B. Mc- 
Alvin, 2 weeks. 

Sept. 4, 1839, John Richardson, 61. 

September, 1839, Sally, wife of John 
Earl. 

Oct. 28, 1839, James Otis, son of Abram 
French, 2. 

Nov. 6, 1839, Francis Denny, son of H. 

A. Miles, pastor, 16 months. 
Jan. 18, 1840, Mrs. Susannah Kendall, 61. 
Feb. 19, 1840, Mrs. Abigail Shattuck, 87. 
April 30, 1840, Lucinda McFarlane, 26. 
May 26, 1840, Mary Ann Bowers, 22. 
June 10, 1840, Mrs. Phebe, widow of the 

late Henry White. Esq., of Salem, 82. 
June 22, 1840, Wm, K. Long, 42. Killed 

on the B. & L. R. R. 
July 28, 1840, Mary Amanda, daughter 

of Cyrus Farrar, 4. 
Aug. 29, 1840, Oliver Harris, son of Wm. 

C. Gray, 2. 
Sept. 7, 1840, Benjamin Walker, 39. 
Sept. 21, 1840, Mrs. Lvdia Colby Stone, 34. 
Sept. 24, 1840, Waiter, infant son of 

Henry Reed, 6 months. 
Sept. 26, 1840, Edward Augustus, son of 

Prentiss dishing, 9 months. 
Sept. 26, 1840, Albert Locke, Esq., 33. 
Sept. 26, 1840, Charles E., infant son of 

Salmon Stone, 4 months. 
Oct. 8, 1840, Lydia, daughter of Daniel 

Cutting, 7. 
Oct. 16, 1840, Mrs. Anna Bowers, 45. 
Oct. 26, 1840, Warren E., son of George 

Fiske, 14 months. 
Nov. 2, 1840, John B. Goodwin, 40. 
Nov. 22, 1840, James, son of John 

Waugh, 5. 

Jan. 11, 1841, Hon. Benjamin F. Varnum, 

high sherilf, 46. 
March 2, 1841, Eliza, wife of Perley 

Hale, 28. 

March 28, 1841, child of J. B. McAlvin, 1 
day. 

July 1, 1841, Anne Elizabeth, daughter 
of B. F. Aikin, 4. 

July 14, 1841, Hannah Y. Lord, 28. 

Aug. 7, 1841, George Francis, son of 
John B. Mc Alvin, 4. 

Aug. 8, 1841, Frederick Frazier, 34. (Jo- 
seph Frazier, aged 28, in city records.) 

Aug. 14, 1841, infant child of Josiah 
Gates. 

Sept. 10, 1841, Helen M. Stephens, 16. 

Sept. 14, 1841, Eleuthera Maria, daugh- 
ter of widow Philbrick, 3 months. 

Oct. 9, 1841, Edwin J., son of Henry J. 
Baxter, 1 year. 

Nov. 21, 1841, Abner Young, 49. 

Nov. 24, 1841, John Howland, son of 
Roland Lyman, 5. 

March 13, 1842, Francis, 2, ) C m?'" 0f 
March 13,1842,HiramBeals,4, j ^sey 
March 14, 1842, Mrs. Lucy Dane, 56. 
March 29, 1842, James Park, son of Job 

P. Webber, 4. 
Aug. 2, 1842, Charles Starkweather, son 

of J. G. Locke, Esq., 9. 
Aug. 19, 1842, James Parsons, son of 

C, C. Convers, 5 months. 



79 Aug. 19, 1842, Frederick Gardiner, son 

of Cyrus Farrar, 7 weeks. 

80 Nov. 8, 1842, Charles S. Barber, 26. 

81 Nov. 16, 1S42, Luther Davis, 42. 

82 Nov. 26, 1842, Joseph Henry, son of 

Joseph D. Plvmpton, 4. 

83 Dec. 29, 1842, Elizabeth Ann, daughter 

of Charles Chandler, 5. 
S4 Jan. 2, 1843, Elisha, son of Elisha Ful- 
ler, 3. 

85 Jan. 8, 1843, Charlotte, daughter of 

Wm. French, 5. 

86 Jan. 23, 1843, Mrs. Mary Bradley, 71. 

87 Feb. 13, 1843, Mary Ann Critchlev 

Hyde, 23. 

88 March 6, 1843, infant child of Alexander 

Wright, 3 weeks. 

89 May 10, 1S43, Sarah Rand Green, 24. 

90 July 21, 1843, Lucy Dana, 69. 

91 July 23, 1843, Frederick, son of Ezra 

Sheldon, 14 months. 

92 July 25, 1843, Frederick Joseph Henry 

Thompson. 5 years. 

93 July27, 1843, Mrs. Jonathan Bancroft,67. 

94 Aug. 1, 1843, Charles Follen, son of 

Dea. Isaac Scripture, 10 months. 

95 Aug. 6, 1843, Frederick Henry Dorr, 

son of Joseph F. Trott, 10 months. 

96 Aug. 12, 1843, Julia Ann, wife of Oliver 

M. Whipple, 27. 

97 Sept. 3, 1843, Frank, infant son of 

Hiram Hersey, 6 weeks. 

98 Sept. 6, 1843, Susan Lamb, 11 vears. 

99 Sept. 24, 1843, Elizabeth, daughter of 

David Dana, 23. 

100 Oct. 3, 1843, Susan Ann Barber, 15; at 

Mr. Fifield's. 

101 Oct. 17, 1843, Harriet Augusta, daugh- 

ter of Zacheus Shed, 15. 

102 Oct. 20, 1843, Martha A., wife of E. B. 

Patch, 32. 

103 Oct. 27, 1843, Mary Ann, wife of D. S. 

Gray, 24. 

104 Nov. 9, 1843, Joseph W. Sanborn, 23; at 

Washington House. 

105 Nov. 16, 1843, Henriette Jane, daughter 

of Lewis Cutting, 5. 

106 Dec. 25, 1843, William Adams, North 

Chelmsford, 82. 

107 Feb. 6, 1844, Albert Locke, son of B. F. 

Aikin, 3. 

108 May 7, 1844, child of Ransom Reed. 

109 May 29, 1844, William W., son of W. S. 

Bennett, 8 months. 

110 July 26, 1844, Susan Duncan, daughter 

of Seth Ames, 1 year. 

111 Sept. 6, 1844, Leonard Hoyt, 6. 

112 Sept. 6, 1844, Mrs. Rebecca Anderson, 33. 

113 Oct. 2, 1844, Frances Maria, daughter 

of J. B. French, 17 months. 

114 Nov. 11, 1844, George Pollock, 52. 

115 Nov. 29, 1844, Mehitable M. Piatt, 54. 

116 Jan. 10, 1845, infant child of John B. 

McAlvin. 

117 Jan. 22, 1845, Martha Stone, daughter 

of Wm. S. Bennett, 4. 

118 Feb. 17, 1845, Isaac Barnes, 80. 

119 Feb. 26, 1845, Eliza Bean, 30. 

120 March 3, 1845, Harriet Adams Boydcn, 

3 years. 

121 March 12, 1845, Coleman Colby, 78. 

122 March 24, 1845, James Henry Boyden, 38. 

123 May 11, 1845, Anna, wife of Joshua 

Roberts, 26. 

124 Mav 20, 1845, Leslie, daughter of Henry 

S. Orange, 3. 

125 June 15, 1845, Charles H. Ebert, son of 

a Mr. Ebert, 2. 

126 Oct. 5, 1845, infant son of Mr. Kellcy. 



APPENDIX NO. FOUR. Ill 



127 Nov. 4, 1845, Frank H., son of Gilbert 

Ferrin, 5, drowned. 

128 Nov. 9, 1S45, infant child of B. F. Aikin. 

129 April IS, 1S46, Catharine Lawrence, 

wife of Cbas. T. Appleton, 35. . 

130 April 22, 1846, Ole Flongen, native of 

iNorwav, 78. 

131 April 27, 1846. Elizabeth, daughter of 

Moses Whittier. 5. 

132 April 30, 1846, Marietta, daughter of 

Ezra Sheldon. 1 vear. 

133 Mav 1, 1846, Ann "Parker, daughter of 

Dr. John C. Dalton. 4. 

134 June 4, 1846, Florence A., daughter of 

Thomas B. Eawson, 3. 
1:35 June IS. 1S46, Eliza A., wife of Matthias 
Parkhurst, 39. 

136 July 28, 1846, Anna Louisa, daughter 

of Eansom Reed, 19 months. 

137 Aug. 2, 1846, Ida Macy, daughter of 

Thomas B. Lawson. 1 vear. 
1:38 Aug. 10, 1846, Julia, wife of Dr. John 
C. Dalton, 44. 

139 Aug. 17, 1846, Elmira, wife of Prentiss 

Cusbing, 39. 

140 Aug. 31,1846, Mary E. Davis, 23. 

141 Sept. 7. 1846, Hiram Martin, 31, drowned. 

142 Sept. 9, 1846, Lydia G., wife of Hon. 

Joseph Locke, 67. 

143 Sept. 25, 1846, Marv Ann, wife of Geo. 

P. Eliot, 44. 

144 Nov. 5, 1846, Mrs. Mehitable Lupkin, 67. 

145 Dec, 1, 1846, Jacob P. Norton, 53. 

146 Jan. 19, 1S47, Eleanor Frances, daugh- 

ter of N. M. Wright, 3. 

147 Feb. 2, 1847, Luke Eastman, 57. 

148 Mav 3, 1847, Lvdia A., wife of Daniel 

Cutting, 39. 

149 June 25, 1847, Hannah, daughter of 

Wm. S. Bennett, 7 months. 

150 July 12, 1847, Harvey B„ son of Harvey 

Snow, 9 months. 

151 Aug. 17, 1847, Elizabeth C, daughter of 

Jacob P. Norton, 25. 

152 Aug. 25, 1847, Elizabeth, daughter of 

Wm. F. Lawrence, 4. 

153 Aug. 31, 1S47, Abba, daughter of Eras- 

tus Douglass, 4 davs. 
1.54 Sept. 4, 1847, Samuel G., son of Wm. F. 
Lawrence, 1 year. 

155 Sept. 8, 1847, Henry Harrison, son of 

Sylvester Crosby, 2. 

156 Sept. -24, 1-47, S"arah J., daughter of 

David Dana, 16. 

157 Oct. 3, 1847, Abiaail, daughter of I. W. 

Beard, 4. 

158 Oct. 11, 1S47, Alfred, son of Charles B. 

Coburn, 6 months. 

159 Oct. 17, 1847, Mrs. Margaret, wife of 

Hon. Seth Ames, 42. 

160 Oct. 27, 1S47, Mrs. Susan P. Jones, at 

Mr. John Clarke's, 56. 

161 Oct. 30, 1847. Augustus J. Burbank, 35. 
1G2 Nov. 14, 1847, Warren, son of Wm. 

French, 16 months. 

163 Nov. 24. 1847, Mrs. Eoxana Webb, 36. 

164 Dec. 8, 1847, Arthur W., son of Whipple 

Allen, 22 days. 

165 Mav 5, 1848, Mrs. Abigail Marsden, 66: 

killed by a fall. 

166 May 27, 1848, Frances Goodwin, daugh- 

ter of John G. Locke, Esq.. 2. 

167 June 14, 1848, John E. Adams, Esq., 49. 

168 June 26, 1848, Mrs. Margaret Bradt, 79. 

169 June 28, 1848, Charlotte Ann, daughter 

of A. J. Burbank, 4 davs. 

170 July 31, 1848, John Annan, 61. 

171 Aug. 9, 1848, Henry, son of Henry S. 

Orange, 3. 



172 Aug. 21, 1S4S, Frank, son of Jona. M. 

Marston, 19 months. 

173 Aug. 23, 1848, Jessn Smith, 67. 

174 Aug. 28, 1848, Frank Merriam, son of 

N. M. Wright, 4. 

175 Aug. 30, 1848, wid. Rebecca Warren, 84. 

176 Sept. 1, 1848, Alfred, son of Geo. C. 

Gilchrist, 10 months. 

177 Sept. 10, 1848, Sarah D. Averv, 16. 

178 Sept. 20, 1848, Isaiah Bradlev", 33. 

179 Sept. 26, 1848, Dr. Peleg Bradlev, .56. 
ISO Jan. 22, 1S49, Frank Cushing, son ol 

Franklin Forbes. 2. 

181 Feb. 25, 1S49, Harriet S., wife of Oliver 

March. 41. 

182 March 17, 1849, Mary Henrietta, daugh- 

ter of J. and Belief Gibbs, 7. 
1S3 April 17, 1849. Henry Chandler, son of 

Whipple Allen, 4. 
1^4 April 23, 1849, Mrs. Susan L. Leslie. 90. 
185 3Iay 1, 1849, George Balcom, 25. Killed 

on Stonv Brook R. R. 
18« Mav 11, 1849, Noah Spauldintr, Chelms- 

ford, 78. 

1S7 Mav 17, 1849, Mary F., wife of Landon 
Adams, 40. 

188 May 25, 1S49, infant daughter of Elisha 

Thomas, 3 days. 
1S9 June 5, 1S49, Henry Frederick, son of 

Frederick Parker," Esq., 3. 

190 JulyS, 1S49, Mrs. Laura Sophia Law- 

rence, 38. 

191 July 17, 1S49, Mary E., daughter of 

Andrew Gunnison, 13 months. 

192 Julv 26, 1849. Edward L. Breck, 19. 

193 Aus:. 9, 1849, Ezra Sheldon, 47. 

194 Aug. 24, 1849, Ellen E. Adams, 2. 

195 Aug. 24, 1849, Mrs. Adin Holbrook. 

196 Sept. 10, 1849, Nathaniel Goodwiu. 67. 

197 Sept. 10, 1849. Mrs. Adaline Adams, 30. 

198 Sept. 11, 1849, Daniel Edgar, son of 

Daniel Bradt, 1 vear. 

199 Sept. 17, 1S49, Josephine H, daughter 

of Whipple Allen. 3 months. 

200 Sept. 22, 1849, W illiarn D., son of Joshua 

Nason. 22. 

201 Oct. 21, 1849, Mrs. Martha, wife of John 

Mixer, 40. 

202 Oct. 27, 1849, Mary, daughter of John 

Mixer, 10 davs. 

203 Nov. 19, 1849. "Edmund L. LeBreton, 44. 

204 Dec. 3, 1849, John Bbvle, 6S. 

205 April 7, 1850, infant son of W. G. Baker, 

4 davs. 

206 June 11. 1850. Georsre A. Butterfield, 30. 

207 Aug. 23, 1S50, George Adams, son of F. 

W. Sargent, 2 months. 

208 Sept. 17, 1850, infant child of Henry 

Wvman. 

209 Oct". IS, 1850, Marianna, daughter of 

Daniel S. Grav, S months. 

210 Dec. 6, 1850, Josiah French, son of Ben- 

jamin Dean, Esq., 15 months. 

211 Jan. 24, 1851, Sarah McKinley, 42. 

212 June 13, 1851, Eliza J., daughter of 

Danforth P. Brigham, 23. 

213 Aus-. 11, 1851. Rebecca Garland, 66. 

214 Sept 3. 1851, Charles H. Barber, 55. 

215 Sept. 15, 1851, John Smith. Killed on 
Stonv Brook R. R. 

216 Sept.'lS, 1851, Benjamin F., son of A. 

R. Brown, Esq., 5 davs. 

217 Sept. 22. 1851, John H" Smith. 

218 Sept. 28, 1851, Susan A., daughter of 

Jonathan Johnson, 1. 

219 Dec. 29, 1851, Mrs. Ann Trott, 67. 

220 Jan. 26, 1S52, Mrs. Eirene Bridge. 

221 March 12, 1852, Charles S., son of Thom- 

as J. Barnes, 2. 



112 



APPENDIX NO. FOUR. 



222 March 16, 1852, George Washington, son 

of Chas. H. Wilder, 2. 

223 May 16, 1852, Dexter Hildrelh,Dracut, 47. 

224 June 8, 1852, Alexander Wright, Esq. , 52. 

225 June 10, 1852, John B. Atkinson, 21. 

226 July 27, 1852, Eliza Ann Adams, North 

Chelmsford. 

227 Aug. 7, 1852, Dea. Isaac Scripture, 51. 
22S Sept. 14, 1852, Joseph Langdell, 43. 

229 Dec. 5, 1852, Charles Bent, 62. 

230 Jan. 21, 1853, Mrs. Susan Ann Orange, 

daughter of Joshua Bradley, 43. 



231 Feb. 20, 1853, Mrs. Mary A. T. Beard, 42. 

232 March 12, 1853, Ezra Kendall, Dracut,64. 

233 April 26, 1853, William B., son of Dea. 

Thomas Ordway, 23. 

234 May 15, 1853, Helen A., daughter of 

Albion P. Dresser, 2. 

235 May 26, 1853, Charlotte A. Clenden- 

nen, 47. 

236 May 27, 1853, child of A. R. Brown, 

Esq., no age. 

237 June 4, 1853, Charles S., son of Dea. 

Thomas Ordway, 25. 



BETWEEN THE MINISTRIES OF DR. MILES AND MR. HINCKLEY. 



[Mr. Tebhets officiating at no funerals during his term.] 



1 Nov. 10, 1853, Hon. Joseph Locke, 81. 

2 June 8, 1854, Samuel Garland, 62. 

3 July 16, 1854, Harriet, daughter of Alden 

Buttrick, one month. 

4 Aug. 3, 1854, Alice W., daughter of Benj. 

H. Penhallow, 5 months. 

5 Aug. 23, 1854, Rebecca, daughter of John 

Nesmith, Esq., 2. 

6 Aug. 26, 1854, Arthur, son of John Nes- 

mith, Esq., 1. 

7 Aug. 30, 1854, Elizabeth, wife of Abram 

French, 50. 

8 Sept. 10, 1854, John, son of John Nes- 

mith, Esq., 8. 

9 Oct. 22, 1854, Catharine Bradt, 64. 

10 Nov. 5, 1854, Willie, son of John Nes- 
mith, Esq., 3 months. 



11 Dec. 16, 1854, Windsor Howe. 

12 Jan. 3, 1855, Elmira W., daughter of Dr. 

Peleg Bi-adlev, 25. 

13 Jan. 4, 1855, Frank Warren, son of Frank- 

lin Coburn, 4. 

14 July 8, 1855, Benj. F. Holden, 38. 

15 July 24, 1855, Isabella D., wife of N. M. 

Wright. 41. 

16 Aug. 4, 1855, Peter Manning, M. D., 64. 

17 Aug. 21, 1855, Hattie E., twin child of 

Andrew C. Wright, 6 months. 

18 Sept. 15, 1855, Ann Eliza, daughter of 

Daniel Bradt, 3 months. 

19 Oct. 16, 1855, Harry B., twin child of 

Andrew C. Wright, 8 months. 

20 July 26, 1856, David Dana, Esq., 59. 



DURING THE MINISTRY OF MR. HINCKLEY. 



1 Nov. 21, 1856, Theodore Butterfield, 62. 

2 Dec. 30, 1S56, Mrs. Laura J. Pollock, 

daughter of William French, 24. 

3 Jan. 5, 1857, son of A. R. Brown, Esq., 

3 days. 

4 Jan. 29, 1857, Frederic Parker, Esq., 43. 

5 Feb. 18, 1857, Harriet P., daughter of 

James Townshend, 8. 

6 Feb. 25, 1857, Augusta B., duughter of 

Gustavus Munk, 3. 

7 March 17, 1857, Lydia, wife of Moses G. 

Howe, Esq., 24. 

8 March 22, 1857, Mrs. Mary E., wife of 

A. Holt, daughter of John Holt, 16. 

9 March 29, 1857, Sarah B., daughter of 

Henry E. Worcester, 3. 

10 April 23, 1857, Mrs. Nellie C, wife of 

EL C. Fiske, 22. 

11 May 18, 1857, Landon Adams, 56. 

12 June 13, 1857, Hannah F. , wife of Samuel 

Horn, 44. 

13 July 10, 1857, Mrs. Hester Hoyle, 76. 

14 Sept. 6, 1857, Oliver March, 48, accidental. 

15 Sept. 14, 1857, Mrs. Martha Hatch, 89. 

16 Oct. 28, 1857, John G. Deblois, 18. 

17 Oct. 28, 1857, Carl S. Erland, at New 

Orleans, of vellow fever, 21. 

18 Nov. 13, 1857, Mrs. Elsie Beal, 79. 

19 Nov . 27, 1857, Henry C. Fiske, 24. 

20 Jan. 29, 1858, Benjamin F., son of Daniel 

Bradt, 16 months. 

21 June 3, 1858, Louisa Upham, daughter 

of Wm. G. Wise, eleven months. 

22 Sept. 23, 1858, Emma L., daughter of 

Oliver C. Prescott, 10 months. 

23 Sept. 24, 1858, Annie F., daughter of 

Charles Nichols, 4. 

24 Feb. 22, 1859, Francis L. Bacon, in Texas. 

25 March 17, 1859, John Adams, Esq., 73. 

26 March 25, 1859, Mrs. Helen Atkinson, 

daughter of John Waugh, 24. 



27 April 6, 1859, Mary, wife of John B. 

McAlvin, 53. 

28 June 11, 1859, Mary E., daughter of Dan- 

iel G. Greenleaf, 22. 

29 June 24, 1859, Aaron Mansur, 83. 

30 July 24, 1859, Mrs. Sarah N., wife of Levi 

Bacon, 49. 

31 July 24, 1859, Bligh, son of James R. and 

C. J. W. Darracott, 7 weeks. 

32 Oct. 21, 1859, Daniel R. Kimball, 59. 

33 Oct. 22, 1859, Ebenezer O. Fifield, 78. 

34 Nov. 7, 1859, Oliver U. Prescott, 32, lock- 

jaw. 

35 Nov. 14, 1859, Dea. Thomas Ordway, 72. 

36 April 11, 1860, Mrs. Rachel Parkhurst, 87. 

37 July 6, 1860, Joshua Roberts, 70, result 

of a fall. 

38 July 30, 1860, Hannah J„ wife of Charles 

Nichols, 34. 

39 Aug. 16, 1860, Anna, daughter of Abram 

French, 10 months. 

40 Aug. 31, 1860, Chas. Tilden Appleton, 2. 

41 Aug. 31, 1860, Mrs. Amelia F. Sheldon, 28. 

42 Sept. 28, 1S60, Mrs. Sarah H. M. Patch, 

39. 

43 Nov. 27, 1860, Fisher A., son of Fisher 

A. Hildreth, Esq., 20 days. 

44 Nov. 30, 1860, Mrs. Elizabeth A., wife of 

Wm. H. Clemence, 33. 

45 Dec. 11, 1860, Mrs. Mary A. J., wife of 

Edward B. Howe, 44. 

46 Jan. 12, 1861, Joseph Butterfield, 76. 

47 Feb. 22, 1861, Harry W., son of Hocum 

Hosford, 6 months. 
4S Feb. 28, 1861, Abraham Howe, 71. 

49 May 17, 1861, Ephraim Currier, 67. 

50 June 10, 1861, Susan A. Skinner, 33. 

51 June 13, 1861, Mrs. Frances E., wife of 

Alden B. Buttrick, 36. 

52 July 17, 1861, Hester M., wife of David 

Bradt, 42. 



APPENDIX NO. FOUR. 



113 



July -21, 1861, Ella F., daughter of Chas. 

B. Scadding. 1. 
July 30. 1861, E. Augusta, wife of Capt. 

T. W. Hendee, 28, died at sea., buried 

in Lowell. 
Aug. 6, 1861, Eddie, son of Capt. T. W. 

Hendee. died at sea. buried in Lowell. 
Nov. 19. 1861, Mrs. Caroline C. Bartiett. 

daughter of the late John Adams. 27. 
Dee. 7, 1561. 3Irs. .Susan W. Fuller, 5.5. 
Jan. 17. 1862. Mrs. Susannah Douglas, 57. 
Feb. 9. 1562. John Bowers.. 61. 
March 17. 1562. Mrs. Sarah C. Scadding. 
April 3, 1863, Dr. Ebenezer Sanborn., at 

Ship Island, 34. 
April 13, 1862, Henry Stone, 32. 
May 14, 1562, Jerusha, wile of Dea. 

Thomas Onlway, 65. 
May 25. 1562. Horatio Bradley, 56. 
July 26, 1862, Lydia Scripture, 14. 
Aui r . 29, 1562, Lieut. James R. Darraeott, 

killed in battle. 
Oct. 26. 1562. Emilv P. Scripture. 16. 
Nov. 19. 1562. Merton C. Brvant, 39. 
Dec. 1, 1562, Charles B., son of Joseph 

Smitb, 2. 

Dee. 1, 1S62, Lydia T., wife of Samuel 
Stone, 51. 

Dee. 5. 1562. Pascal, son of Levi Sprague. 
Esq.. B. 

Dec. 5. 1862, Mary Catharine, daughter 

of Ebenezer Burgess, 9. 
Jan. 8. 1863. Israel." son of Hon. Fisher 

A. Hildreth, 4. 
Jan. 17, 1863, Emily, daughter of Mrs. 

Emilv Sanborn. 4". 
Feb. 18, 1863, Charles A., son of David 

Bradt, Esq., at Newbern. N. C, 18. 



79 
80 
81 



April 13. 1563, Alice Kusscll, daughter of 

H. O. Morse. 2. 
April 29, 1563, Kitty W., daughter of 

Chas. Morrill. Esq".. S. 
May 4, 1863, Fannie W., daughter of Jos. 

W. Smith. 8 months. 
June 3, 1863, Mrs. Harriet K., wife of 

John M. Mavnard, 54. 



Marv Anne, wife of Hon. J. 



.1;: 



18 Sergt : i * ■ w. Tarnum, 

killed in battle near Fairfax, Va. 
Nov. 8, 1863. Abbv, daughter of Svlvester 

Littleheld. of T\mgsborough, 20. 
Nov. 22. 1563, Otis Perham.^M. D., died 

at Worcester hospital, 50. 
Dec. 4. 1863, Maria Antoinette, daughter 

ox True Wing, 10. 
Dec. 10, 1863, Leander Taggart, 49, died 

in Cuba. 

Jan. IS, 1564, Charles E. Brazer, 36. 

Jan. 22, 1864. Samuel Stone, 73. 

Feb. 22. 1864. Frank O.. son of G. J. 



ge S-, infant son of J. 
i days. 

, twin son of Kobert 



31arch 8, 1864, 

B. Keves. E 
April 1. "1564. 

X. Tullock. 4. 
Mav 9. 1864, Selina. daughter of G. J 

Bradt Esq., 24. 
May 14, 1864, Arthur, son of Daniel S 

Grav. 18 months. 
July 1, 1564, Albert G. Flint, 26. 
Julv 8, 1864, John Avery, Esq., 64. 
A ... '.1564. Emily C, daughter of Hon 

C. L. Knapp, 23." 

Sept. 31, 1864. Juliette Butterneld, 30. 
Oct. 11. 1564. William A. Lamb. 



BETWEE5 MTSTSTRrEi- OF MB. HINCKLEY A>"T> MR. GKrX^TELL. 



1 Nov. 21. 1864. Dea. Joel Adams, 81. 

2 May 10, 186-5, John Earle. 53. 

3 Aug. 4. 1565, Elizabeth S. Manning. 34. 

4 Aug. 30, 1865, Philip A. Wing, 19." 

5 Sept. 1. 1865, Charles J. Bement. 14. 

6 Oct. 13, 1665, Willie A., son of Capt. 

Thomas W. Hendee. 4. 

7 Nov. 1, 1565, John Wheelock Patch, 26. 

8 Jan. 23, 1866, Miss Janette Blanchard, 55. 



I 9 Feb. 5, 1866. John McAlviu, 66. 

10 March 4. 1566, Amanda Bird, 61. 

11 March23,1866. Mrs. Louisa W. Bradlev,73. 

12 April 19, 1866, infant of T. P. and F. R. 

Eobinson. 

13 May 5, 1566, Gertrude, daughter of Abram 

French, Esq., 8. 

14 Aug. 13, 1866, Blanche, daughter of Jef- 

ferson A. Knowles, 5 months. 



DURIXG MINISTRY OF MB. GRHOTELL. 



I.. 64. 



B. F 



March 5, 1567, Mrs. Luella Iff., wife of 13 

Darius C. Brown, 45. 
March 27. 1567, Ransom Reed. Es 
April 10, 1567, Alfred E. Nichols, 
June, 1867, Lydia, daughter of 

and Sarah Scripture Clarke. 13. 
June 29. 1S67. Dea. Abner W. Buttrick.55. 
July 4. 1867, Capt. Thomas W. Hendee, 

37. died at sea. buried in Lowell. 
July 5, 1567. Elizabeth Spalding. 
Jan. 8, 1565. Mrs. Elizabeth Spalding. 73. 
March 11, 1565. Dr. Samuel L. Dana, 72. 
March 12, 1565. Marv Frances, daughter 

of James Hopkins. Esq . 26. 
Julv 11. 1868, Wm. 5. Manning. 32. 
Julv 19. 1S68. Mrs. Lvdia" Brigham 

Howe. 82. 



Aug. 3 
J. E. 
Aug. ] 



C. Dc 



1868, Elizabeth E., daughter of 



& C. J. D; 



)tt, 6. 

A., daughter of 
lonths. 

£., son of Stephen 



16 Nov. 17, 1S6S, Mrs. Ellen S. Hun tin g- 

17 Jan. 9, 1869, Col. Abel Carter, lather of 



24 Oct. 15. 1569. Hon, 



tus Douglass, 68. 
rederick Marvel, 24. 
■ah Elizabeth, wife of 

Wright, Esq.. 71. 
Alma G. Morrill, 47. 
Susan P. Wright. 72. 
John Nesmith, 76. 



BETWEEN MINISTRIES OF MR. GRIVXELL A>T> >LR. BLAXCHAEI'. 



1 Dec. 11. 1869. Vincent E. Dow. 1 vear. 

2 Dec-. 14, 1869, George R., son of Alfred 

P. Lyman. 8 months. 



3 Feb. 2, 1870, Alpheus G. Wing, 58. 

4 Mav 23. 1870, John W. Hopkins. 39. 

.1 Nov. 28, 1570. H. G. F. Corliss. Esq.. 64. 



lo 



114 



APPENDIX NO. FOUR. 



DURING MINISTRY OF MR. BLANCH ARD . 



1 March 1, 1871, Mrs. Harriet Nesmith 

Co-burn, 29. 

2 March 23, 1871, Daniel Blanchard, 52. 

3 June 14, 1871, Lyman B. Manning, 26. 

4 July 20, 1871, Sarah A., wife of Dea. J. 

A. Knowles, 67. 

5 Aug. 30, 1871, Sarah Frances, daughter 

of George H. Bartlett, 2 months. 

6 Sept. 3, 1871, Sidney Spalding, Esq., 73. 

7 Nov. 15, 1871, Roland Lyman, Esq., 69. 

8 Nov. 16, 1871, Frederick E., son of Hon. 

Wm. F. Salmon, 13. 

9 Dec. 4, 1871, Walter H., son of Henry A. 

Hildreth, Esq., 5. 

10 Dec. 27, 1871, Thos. Jefferson Coburn, 67. 

11 Jan. 9, 1872, Mrs. Anne Maria A. Graves. 

12 Feb. 2, 1872, Edward R. Talbot, 32. 



13 April 27, 1872, Mrs. Marv Ellen, wife of 

Capt. T. W. Hendee, 37. 

14 May 3, 1872, Mrs. Rebecca W. Mansur, 86. 

15 June 11, 1872, Charles S. Hopkins, killed 

by Indians in New Mexico, 44. 

16 July 29, 1872, Lawrence A., son of T. B. 

Lawson, Esq., 20. 

17 Oct. 14, 1872, Grace R., daughter of N. 

W. Storer, 3 mon'hs. 

18 Oct. 29, 1872, Mrs. Helen Kimball Good- 

hue, 23. 

19 Jan. 26, 1S73, Cbas. A. Baker, 40. 

20 February 6, 1873, Miss Julia M. Pen- 

hallow, 55. 

21 March 30, 1873, Benjamin H. Penhallow, 

Esq., 56. 



BETWEEN MINISTRIES OF MR. BLANCHARD AN D MR. SEWARD. 



1 July 9, 1873, Hon. Fisher A. Hildreth, 55. 

2 July 18, 1873, Mrs. Isaac Cooper, 67. 

3 Dec. 2, 1873, Andrew C. Wright, Jr., 27. 

4 Dec. 5, 1873, Harriet A. Hopkins, 35. 

5 Dec. 29, 1873, Henry C, son of J. B. 

Goodwin, 28 days. ' 

6 Jan. 20, 1874, Mabel H., daughter of N. 

W. Storer, 5 months. 

7 March 16, 1874, Mrs. Emma E., wife of 

N. W. Storer, 25. 

8 March 22, 1874, Miss L. Abby Spalding,53. 

9 April 27, 1874, Enoch T. Perley, 55. 



10 May 1, 1874, Catharine M., wife of Dea. 

Joel Adams, 88. 

11 June 19, 1874, Mrs. Fanny W., widow of 

Jesse Smith, 83. 

12 June 27, 1874, Miss Sallie S. Earle, 61. 

13 July 25, 1874, Nesmith, son of Hon. F. T. 

Greenhalge, 10 months. 

14 July 27, 1874, Peder Anderson, Esq., 63. 

15 Aug. 12. 1874, Edward Stone, 71. 

16 Oct. 13, 1874, Herbert T.. son of Jeffer- 

son A. Knowles, 3. 

17 Dec. 3, 1874, Lizzie E., daughter of Fred. 

A. Spofford, 18. 



DURING MINISTRY OF 

1 Jan. 21, 1875, Sarah Jane, wife of Albert 

C. Wilkin s, 33. 

2 Jan. 25, 1875, Herbert Wells, son of S. Y. 

Spaulding, 11. 

3 Jan. 25, 1875, Harriet A., wife of Stephen 

A. Cutter, 52. 

4 Feb. 12, 1875, Mary S. Barbour, widow. 62. 

5 March 19, 1875, Rebecca, wife of Timothy 

Bascom, 62. 

6 April 26, 1875, Lucy May, daughter of 

Charles Heald, 17 days. 

7 May 3, 1875, Frank Alberton, son of 

Wm. C. Lord, 9. 

8 May 12, 1875, Fannie K. Plimpton, 30. 

9 May 27, 1875, Caroline B., wife . of 

Alpheus R. Brown, Esq., 54. 

10 June 9, 1875, Geo. Leonard, son of Geo. 

P. Woodward, 5. 

11 June 27, 1875, Sarah, widow of Washing- 

ton Monroe, 76. 

12 July 29, 1875, Walter Grinnell, son of 

Dr. F. Nickerson, 9 months. 

13 Aug. 9, 1875, Mabel, daughter of Hon. 

Wm. E. Livingston, 2. 

14 Sept. 13, 1875, Danforth P. Brigham, 

Esq., 71. 

15 Sept. 19, 1875, Wm. Lamson, Jr., 56. 

16 Oct. 21, 1875, Ella Wood, wife of Nat. 

Appleton, 27. 

17 Nov. 23, 1875, Mary B., wife of Dea. Chas. 

H. Wilder, 65. 

18 Dec. 14, 1875, Harriet Pierce, daughter 

of Mrs. C J. Bond, 26. 

19 Dpc. 23, 1875, Mary A., wife of Henry E, 

Parker, 24. 

20 Dec. 29, 1875, Eliphalet Hills, «3. 

21 Feb. 11, 1876, Joanna, widow of Barna- 

bas N. Bradt, 60. 

22 March 4, 1876, Geo. W. Walker, 63. 

23 March 7, 1876, Benjamin F. Clarke, 54. 



MR. SEWARD TO 1880. 

24 March 31, 1876, Alden B. Richardson, 

Esq., 52. 

25 April 19, 1876, Mary Augusta, wife of 

Gen. Wm. O. Fiske, 26. 

26 April 19, 1876, Horace W. Parmenter, 37. 

27 April 23, 1876, Josiah Russell, 76. 

28 April 26, 1876, James Kent, 75. 

29 May 10, 1876, Daisy H, adopted daughter 

of Thos. H. Elliott, Esq., 8 months. 

30 May 27, 1876, Daniel Knapp, Esq., 67. 

31 July 12, 1876, Gerritt J. Bradt, Esq., 66. 

32 July 17, 1876, Frank, son of Dr. F. Nick- 

erson, 1 month. 

33 July 22, 1876, Edwin N., son of Alfred P. 

Lyman, 3 months. 

34 Aug. 8, 1876, Harriet E. Reed, 36. 

35 Aug. 21 , 1876 Hon. Josiah B. French, 84. 

36 Sept. 13, 1876, Chas. A. F. Swan, Esq., 46? 

37 Sept. 14, 1876, Gen. Benjamin V dams, 75. 

38 Sept. 16, 1876, Nathan Huse, 46. 

39 Oct. 29, 1876, Dea. John Morrison, 75. 

40 Nov. 10, 1876, Amos B. Mclntire, 63 

41 Dec. 14, 1876, Caroline, daughter of Hon. 

G. F. Richardson, 14. 

42 Jan. 10, 1877, Augustus E. Spalding, 

Esq., 56. 

43 Jan. 22, 1877, Gertie G., daughter of 

Geo. W. Perrin, 5. 

44 March 24, 1877, Lucy Ann Yeaton, 63. 

45 March 25, 1877, Hannah Ethel, daughler 

of Chas. T. Goddard, 3. 

46 April 17, 1877, Wm. R. Swan, 41. 

47 April 19, 1877, Henry T., son of Henry 

C. Guild, 26. 

48 Aug;. 7, 1877, Emeline, wife of Hapgood 

Wright. Esq., 65. 

49 Aug. 10, 1877, Matthias Parkhurst, Esq,. 

73 years. 

50 Aug. 11, 1877, Annie Harris, 21. 



APPENDIX NO. FOUR, 



115 



51 Aug. 21, 1877, Fannie B., daughter of 

John A. Knowles, Jr., 2. 

52 Aug. 21, 1877, Laura J. Mclntire, wife of 

J. Y. Cressy, 26. 

53 Aug. 2S, 1877, Chas. B., son of Alouzo 

A. Coburn, Esq., 5. 
51 Sept. 5, 1877, Maria Mansur, 37. 

55 Oct. 14, 1877, Jonathan Tvler, Esq., 87.* 

56 Dec. 7, 1877, Darius Whittled, 63; killed 

by a fall. 

57 Jan. 13, 1878, Dr. John C. Bartlett, of 

Chelmsford (pastor officiated at fu- 
neral), 69. 

58 Feb. 10, 1878, True Wing, 61. 

59 Feb. 28, 1S78, George Wright, 55. 

60 March 1, 1878, George H. Bartlett, 39. 

61 March 6, 1878, Audley C, son of James 

H. Brown, 13 days; parents on a visit 
from England. 

62 April 11, 1878, Richard W. Baker, 40. 

63 April 14, 1878, George A., son of Dr. F. 

Nickerson, 5. 

64 May 20, 1878, Sarah A., widow of Albert 

J. Ford, 76. 

65 May 27, 1878, Mary A. Moulton, 64. 

66 July 15, 187S, Augusta, widow of Dr. S. 

L. Dana, and daughter of the late 
President Willard of Harvard Uni- 
versity, 85. 

67 Aug. 31, 1878, Louisa, widow of J. M. 

Peabodv, 49. 

68 Sept. 11, 187S, Josiah Emerv Gates, 33. 

69 Nov. 7, 1S7S, Howard S., son of E. H. 

Lord, 1 day. 

70 Dec. 13, 1878, Elizabeth, widow of Peter 

Walker, 48; killed by the falling of a 
board from a new building. 

71 Dec. 14, 1878, John E. Webb, 63. 

72 Dec. 25, 1878, Clara S. Smith, 24. 

73 Jan. 8, 1879, Andrew C. Wright, 59. 

74 Feb. 7, 1879, Paul, son of F. and Lilla 

Lawsou Grant, 7 months. 

75 Feb. 17, 1879, Joseph Ravnes, 65. 

76 Feb. 25, 1879, Arvilla B., wife of Thos. 

H. Elliott, Esq., 26. 

77 March 6, 1879, Hon. Charles Kimball, 67. 

78 March 20, 1879, Mary B., wife of M. G. 

Howe, Esq., 53. 

79 March 21, 1879, Sidney D., son of Ham- 

ilton Burrage, Esq., 3. 



80 April 11, 1879, Abram French, Esq., 75. 

81 April 18, 1879, Joseph Keith, 77. 

82 April 23, 1879, Thos. E. Dow, 40. 

83 May 5, 1879, Dea. Chas. H. Wilder, 73. 

84 July 10, 1879, Geo. W. Hazeltine, 69. 

85 July 26, 1879, Miranda W. Bradley, 47. 

86 Aug. 15, 1879, Annie P., wife of Alfred 

S. Saunders, 69. 

87 Sept. 5, 1S79, Mrs. Mary M. Brown, 78. 

88 Oct. 4, 1879, Thomas G., son of Henry 

C Guild, 13. 

89 Oct. 23, 1879, Almira H. Coburn, 70. 

90 Nov. 6, 1879, Almira H., widow of Anan 

Reed 53 

91 Nov. i7, 1879, Hannah S., widow of 

Dea. Abner W. Buttrick, 66. 

92 Dec. 4, 1879, Susan J., wife of Matthew 

Rhodes, 40. 

93 Dec. 29, 1879, Wm. H. Davis, 37 ; died 

in England; buried in Lowell. 

94 Jan. 10, 1880, Mrs. Adeline Crowell, 74. 

95 Feb. 5, 1SS0, Henry O. Morse, 54. 

96 Feb. 27, 1880, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrill, 

mother of Mrs. H. L. Williams, 89. 

97 Feb. 27, 1880, Charles B. Scadding, 43. 

98 March 21, 1880, Moody Soper, father of 

Mrs. C. S. Bean and Mrs. Nathan 
Huse, 82, 

99 April 22, 1880, Lydia, wife of Rev. 

Horace B. Morse, 68. 

100 April 24, 1880, Mrs. Hannah H. Melen- 

dy, sister of D. S. Gray, 56. 

101 April 25, 1880, John B. McAlvin, Esq., 79. 

102 May 21, 1880, Anna B., daughter of 

David Bradt, Esq., 32. 

103 Aug. 10, 1880, at Kennebunkport, Me., 

Miller C. Baldwin, Esq., of Chicago, 
111., son-in-law of ; Hon. J. A. Knowles, 
38. (Buried in Lowell.) 

104 Aug. 22, 1880, in the cars, on Union 

Pacific R. R., on his way from Cali- 
fornia, William Spencer 'Wright, son 
of Mrs. Alexander Wright, 30. 

105 Oct. 13, 18S0, Charles Derby, son of the 

late Dr. Ebenezer Sanborn, killed by 
being thrown from a horse in Webster, 
Col., 24. 

106 Nov. 17, 1880, Mrs. Nellie A., wife of 

Warren Fox, 35. 



DEATHS IN LEE 

1 Oct. 18, 1847, Humphrey Webster, 66. 

2 March 6, 1S48, widow Abigail Pierce, 79. 

3 May 2, 1848, Albert Harrison, son of 

Albert Mallard, 7. 

4 May 5, 1848, Martha P., daughter of 

John Loomis, 7. 

5 May 6, 1848, Emma F., daughter of Wm. 

Cooper, 1 year. 

6 June 29, 1848. infant of Jonathan S. Mor 

rill, 4 weeks. 

7 Aug. 18, 1848, Fred R,, son of Haskell 

Spalding, 18. 

8 Aug. 30, 1848, Chas. Edward, son of 

Haskell Spalding, 7. 

9 Sept. 6, 1848, widow Sarah French, 72. 

10 Oct. 7, 1848, Emily, daughter of Samuel 

Goodrich, 4 weeks. 

11 Feb. 12, 1849, George Henry, son of 

Alpheus Spalding, 3 months. 

12 March 6, 1849, Edwin T., son of Richard 

Pillsbury, 1 year. 



STREET PARISH. 



13 March 7, 1849, George Henry, son of 

Isaac Deming, 1 year. 

14 April 1, 1849, Horace B. Mason, 20. * 

15 April 3, 1849, George Appleton, son of 

Jona. Johnson, under one year. 

16 June 1, 1849, Benjamin F. Aiken, 45. 

17 June 7, 1849, James, son of Chas. Law- 

rence, 7 weeks. 

18 July 3, 1849, widow Mary Adams, of 

North Chelmsford, 85. 

19 October, 1849, a Mr. Whitmarsh, 60. 

20 Nov. 8, 1849, Ransom Roby, 26. 

21 Jan. 25, 1850, Ann A., daughter of J. B. 

Stetson, 4. 

22 Feb. 20, 1850, Martin N. Horn, 39. 

23 March 25, 1850, widow Betsey Webb, 66. 

24 April 8, 1850, Anne Augusta Moulton, 23. 

25 April 22, 1850, widow Dolly Whitney, 56. 

26 April 29, 1850, Mrs. Nabby Cutter, 72. 

27 Aug. 2, 1850, Wm. Barry, son of the pas- 

tor, 16. 



* Pastor was invited to assist at funeral, but was unavoidably absent. 



APPENDIX 



NO. FIVE. 



2S Aug. 30, 1850, Henry E. F., son of Ed- 
ward B. Lewis, 6. 

29 Oct. 8, 1850, Ann, wife of John Quant, 45. 

30 Oct. 17, 1850, Geo. Adams, son of Wm. 

Canterbury, 11 months. 

31 Dec. 19, 1850, Walter Earnest, son of 

Wm. T. G. Fierce, 1 year. 

32 Feb. 22, 1851, Chas. W., son of Fred W. 

Sargent, 7. 

33 Oct. 12, 1851, Jane, daughter of Patrick 

P. Campbell, 2. 

34 Oct. 29, 1851, Joseph E. Farmer, 79. 

35 Nov. 15, 1851, Frank, son of Charles 

Nichols 

36 Dec. 1, 1851, Ellen M., daughter of Chas. 

A. Way, 25. 

37 April 1, 1852, Wm. H., son of Wm. New- 

man, 19. 

38 June 15, 1852, Lydia L., wife of W. L. 

Dayton, 37. 

39 July 18, J 852, the father of Mrs. J. B. 

McAlvin. 

40 Sept. 4, 1852, Matilda E., infant daugh- 

ter of Nathan C. Morse. 

41 Sept. 19, 1852, Hunter P., infant son of 

Harrison W, Streeter. 

42 Oct. 3, 1852, Phebe P., wife of Herman 

Abbot, 34. 

43 Nov. 7, 1852, Emma, daughter of J. B. 

Richardson, of Billerica. 

44 Dec. 26, 1852, Selina Ann, wife of G. J. 

Bradt, 38. 



45 Jan. 1, 1S53, Sarah Jane, daughter of 

Weld Spalding, 24. 

46 Feb. 18, 1853, William Lamb, 53. 

47 Aug. 22, 1853, Frank W., son of P. M. 

Harris, 2. 

48 Oct. 16, 1853, Catharine Morse, 26. 

49 Nov. 6, 1853, Francis S. Salmon, 48. 

50 Jan. 27, 1854, M. W. Gilmore, 34. 

51 Feb. 11, 1854, Chas. H. Stebbins, 19. 

52 May 15, 1854, Selina Morse, 17. 

53 Sept. 13, 1854, Clarence R., son of W. B. 

H. Fessenden, 5. 

54 Jan. 4, 1855, Frank Warren, son of 

Franklin Coburn, 4. 

55 Oct. 14, 1855, child of J. L. Knowles, 1 . 

56 Jan. 12, 1856, Louise, adopted daughter 

of Edward Fifield, 17. 

57 April 16, 1856. Lowell B., son of George 

Darracott, Sr., 4. 

58 May 3, 1856, Clarissa W., wife of James 

G, Carney, Esq., 50. 

59 Feb. 23, 1857, Cyrus, son of J. W. Boyce, 7. 

60 March 4, 1857, Charles, son of Charles A . 

Way, 1 year. 

61 March 17,' 1857, Lydia W., wife of M. G. 

Howe, Esq., 28. 

62 Julv 5, 1858, Clara Boardman, 3. 

63 Nov. 14, 1859, Henry Clement, 30. 

64 May 15, I860, Mrs. S. C. Loomis, 48. 

65 March 24. 1861, Isabelle W., daughter of 

B. H. Penhallow, 1 year. 

66 Feb. 10, 1869, James G. Carney, Esq., 64. 



JVppimfci* JJ#+ Otitic* 



SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 



John A. Knowles, June, 1830, to March, 
1832. 

Pelham W. Warren, April, 1832, to about 

August, 1835. 
John A. Knowles (second time), about 

August, 1835, to about August, 

1838. 

Ithamar A. Beard, about August, 1838, 

to about August, 1840. 
James P. Walker, about August, 1840, 

to about August, 1846. 
William G. Wise, about August, 1846, to 

August, 1855. 
Ephraim W. Young, September, 1855, to 

August, 1856. 
Rev. Frederick Hinckley fex-officio), 

September, 1856, to September, 1864. 
John F. Kimball, September, 1856, to 

September, 1863. 



10 Wm. A. Lamb, September, 1863, to Octo- 

ber, 1864. 

11 Ephraim B Patch, October, 1864, to 

March, 1867. 

12 Rev. C. E. Grinnell, March, 1867, to 

October, 1869. 

13 Charles H. Coburn, October, 1869, to 

June, 1870. 

14 Moses G. Howe, June, 1870, to April, 

1873. 

15 Newman W. Storer, May, 1873, to No- 

vember, 1874. 

16 Walter Coburn, December, 1874, to 

April, 1877. 

17 Frank K. Stearns, May, 1877, to April. 

1879. 

IS George D. Adams, May, 1879, to August, 
1880. 

19 Frank K. Stearns (second time), Sep- 
tember, 1880. 



Many of these Superintendents served long terms as Assistant Superintendents, and 
their term of service is not fully shown in the above table. Arthur E. Bowers served as 
Assistant Superintendent from October. 1864, to October, 1867. 



COLLEGE GRADUATES IN THE PARISH. 

The following table is designed to show the names of all persons who have belonged 
to the parish, at any age, who have graduated at any collegiate institution. The large 
number is very significant of the intellectual standing of the society. 

PAST PARISHIONERS. 



1 John Locke, Harvard, 1792; represen- 

tative in congress; died 1855. 

2 Joseph Locke, Dartmouth, 1797 ; judge 

of the Lowell Police Court for many 
years ; died 1853. 

3 Luther Lawrence, Harvard, 1801; speak- 

er of the Massachusetts House of Rep- 
resentatives ; president for seven years 
of the Railroad Bank ; twice mayor of 
Lowell ; killed by a fall in 1839. 

4 Ebenezer Osgood Fifield, Dartmouth, 

1S04; died 1859. 

5 Lemuel Williams, Brown, 1804; lawyer; 

collector of port of New Bedford ; died 
1869. 

6 Joel Adams, Harvard, 1S05 ; died 1864. 

7 John Lane Sheafe, Harvard, 1810; 

lawyer; judge of a court in Louisiana 
afterwards ; died 1864. 
S Luke Eastman, Dartmouth, 1812; died 
1847. 

9 Samuel Luther Dana, Harvard, 1813; 
physician and eminent chemist; for 
many years chemist of the Merrimack 
Company ; died 1868. He was a mem- 
ber of the American Academy of Arts 

1C William Williams Fuller, Harvard, 1813 ; 
lawyer ; died 1849. 

11 John Call Dalton, Harvard, 1814; emi- 

nent physician and surgeon ; died 1864. 

12 Elisha Fuller, Harvard, 1815; lawyer; 

died 1855. 

13 Pelham Win slow Warren, Harvard, 

1815; once clerk of House of Repre- 
sentatives in Massachusetts ; cashier, 
and later president of the Railroad 
Bank in Lowell; died 1848. 

14 John Clark, Harvard, 1816 ; agent of the 

Merrimack Manufacturing Company, 
and treasurer of the Salem and Lowell 
Railroad ; died 1851. 

15 John Richardson Adams, Harvard, 1818 ; 

lawyer; died 1848. 

16 John Avery, Harvard, 1819; agent of 

the Hamilton Manufacturing Com- 
pany; died 1864. 

17 Charles Butterfield, Harvard, 1820 ; died 

1858. 

18 John Adams, Harvard, 1823; lawyer; 

died 1834. 

19 John Paul Robinson, Harvard, 1823; 

lawyer; State senator; died 1864. 



20 John Wright, Harvard, 1823; agent of 

the Suffolk Manufacturing Company; 
died 1869. 

21 Josiah Bartlett, Dartmouth Medical 

School, 1824 ; president N. H. Medical 
Society; died 1853 

22 Edmund Lewis LeBreton, Harvard, 

1824; agent of the Merrimack Manu- 
facturing Company ; died 1849. 

23 Seth Ames, Harvard, 1825 ; distinguished 

lawyer; associate justice of the su- 
preme court. 

24 Elisha Bartlett, Brown Medical Depart- 

ment, 1826; distinguished physician; 
first mayor of Lowell ; eminent med- 
ical lecturer in New York, Maryland, 
and Lexington, Ky. ; died in Rhode 
Island, 1855. 

25 Samuel Foster Haven, Harvard, 1826; 

ll.d. from Amherst, 1879; secretary 
of the American Antiquarian Society, 
of Worcester. 

26 Charles Parker Coffin, Harvard, 1828; 

physician ; died 1868. 

27 Horatio Shipley, Harvard, 1828; died 

1872. 

2S Charles Gordon, Brown University, 
1829; Harvard Medical School, 1832; 
died 1872. 

29 Albert Locke, Harvard, 1829; lawyer; 

.died 1840. 

30 Joseph Kendall Waite, Harvard, 1829; 

clergyman; died 1872. 

31 Thomas Hopkinson, Harvard, 1830; very 

able lawyer; judge of the court of 
common pleas; State senator; presi- 
dent of the Boston and Worcester Rail- 
road; died 1856. 

32 John Wade, Amherst, 1S30; Harvard 

Law School, 1834; died 1851. 

33 Charles Bradley, Harvard, 1831. 

34 Horace Gates Ford Corliss, Dartmouth, 

1831;. lawyer; died 1870. 

35 Joseph Warren Mansur, Harvard, 1831; 

lawyer; State senator. 

36 Wendell Phillips, Harvard, 1831; emi- 

nent philanthropist. 

37 Frederick Parker, Harvard, 1833 ; ll. b., 

1841; lawyer; died 1857. 

38 Franklin Forbes, Amherst, 1833; prin- 

cipal of the Lowell high school; af- 
terwards agent of the Lancaster Mills 
in Clinton, Mass. ; died 1879. 



118 



APPENDIX >T0. SIX. 



•'59 Isaac Hinckley, Harvard, 1834 ; agent of 
the Merrimack Manufacturing Com- 
pany; president of the Phila., Wil. 
& Bait. R. R. 

40 Rufus Bigelow Lawrence, Harvard, 

1834; lawyer; died 1841. 

41 Alpheus Robert Brown, Dartmouth, 

1836; lawyer. 

42 George Derby, Harvard, 183S ; eminent 

physician; afterwards professor of 
Hygiene in Harvard Medical School; 
died 1874. 

43 Otis Perham, from Woodstock Medical 

School. 

44 Ralph Butterfield, Dartmouth, 1839; M. 

D. from University of Pennsylvania, 
1843. 

45 Rufus Putnam Cutler, Yale, 1839; Har- 

vard Theological School, 1844 ; taught 
for a while in Lowell; died 1877. 

46 William Goodwin Russell, Harvard, 

1840; ll.b., Harvard, 1845; ll. d., 
Harvard, 1878; lawyer; once taught 
school in Lowell. . 

47 William Adams Richardson, Harvard, 

1843; ll.b., 1846; ll.d. from Colum- 
bian College at Washington, 1873; 
judge of probate in Middlesex for 20 
years ; at one time Secretary of the 
Treasury of the U. S.; at present 
Judge of the Court of Claims in Wash- 
ington. 

48 John Call Dalton, Jr., Harvard, 1844; 

eminent physician and medical writer ; 
became a professor of physiology and 
microscopical anatomy in Columbia 
College, N. Y., Medical Department. 

49 Frank Parker Appleton, Harvard Di- 

vinity School, 1845; agent of Lowell 
Bleachery. 

50 John Brazer, Dartmouth, 1845. 

51 Joshua Augxistus Swan, Harvard, 1846; 

Unitarian clergyman eventually, in 
Kennebunk, Me. ; died 1871. 

52 David Dana, Harvard Medical School, 

1847; physician. 

53 Charles Edward Hodges, Harvard, 1847 ; 

became a Unitarian minister; died 
1870. 

54 John Thornton Kirkland Adams, Har- 

vard, 1848; died 1867. 

55 William Henry Bradley, Woodstock 

Medical School, 1848. 

56 Ephraim Wood Young, Harvard, 1848. 

57 Francis Leathe, Harvard, 1849. 

58 Warren Handel Cudworth, Harvard, 

1850; became a Unitarian minister, and 
ministers most successfully to a large 
congregation in East Boston. 



59 John Avery, Jr., Harvard. 1850; civil 

engineer in New York City. 

60 Alphonzo Warren Boardman, Harvard, 

1850; for a time principal of the Var- 
num School in Lowell. 

61 George Eames Dana, Harvard, 1854. 

62 Samuel Foster Haven, Jr., Harvard, 

1852; physician; died 1862. 

63 William Prescott Wright, Harvard, 1853 ; 

lawyer in Chicago. 

64 J ohn Worthington Ames, Harvard, 1854 ; 

died 1878. 

65 Edward Barry Dalton, Harvard, 1855; 

physician ; died 1872. 

66 John Carver Palfrey, Harvard, 1857; 

agent of the Merrimack Manufactur- 
ing Company; was a colonel in the 
army, and chief officer of the Massa- 
chusetts division of the Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

67 Fisher Ames, Harvax-d, 185S; ll.b., 

Harvard, 1860; lawyer. 

68 Pelham Warren Ames, Harvard, 1859. 

69 Francis Custis Hopkinson, Harvard, 

1859; ll.b., Harvard, 1S62; died 1863. 

70 Georsre Porter Lawrence, Harvard Law 

School, 1860. 

71 Henry Holton Fuller, Harvard Medical 

School, 1860; physician. 

72 James Oliver Scripture, Dartmouth, 

1860; became an Episcopal minister; 
died 1868. 

73 Sidney Howard Carney, Harvard'Medi- 

cal School, 1861. 

74 John Prentiss Hopkinson, Harvard, 

1861; has a preparatory school to fit 
young men for Harvard. 

75 Ithamar Warren Beard, Harvard, 1862. 

76 Eli Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology, 1868; business in Clin- 
ton. 

77 Edwin Howard Lord, Bowdoin, 1871; 

instructor in the Lowell high school ; 
now principal of the Lawrence high 
school. 

78 Mrs. Julia Swift Bennett-Lord, Vassar, 

1874; removed to Lawrence in 1880, 
wife of Mr. E. H. Lord; the only fe- 
male collegiate graduate in the par- 
ish. 

79 Ellery Stowell, Rensellaer Polytechnic 

School, Troy, 1874. 

80 Clarence E. Sprague, Worcester Free 

Ins., 1875. 

81 Howard Hinckley, Harvard, Scientific 

Department; Bachelor of Mechanic 
Arts, 1877. 

82 Frederick William Wood, Massachu- 

setts Institute of Technology, 1877. 



PRESENT PARISHIONERS. 



83 Julian Abbot, Harvard, 1826; lawyer. 

84 Horatio Wood, Harvard, 1827; clergy- 

man ; for many years the first minis- 
ter-at-large in Lowell; president of 
the Five Cent Savings Bank. 

85 Daniel Samuel Richardson, Harvard, 

1836; ll.b., Harvard, 1839; lawyer; 
State senator. 

86 Charles Morrill, Waterville, 1837; super- 

intendent of schools in Lowell. 

87 Samuel Bement, Wesleyan, Middle- 

town, Ct., 1841; principal of Bartlett 
School. 

88 George Francis Richardson, Harvard, 

1850; ll.b., Harvard, 1853; lawyer; 
ex-mayor of Lowell; State senator. 



93 



95 



Henry McCobb Bacon, Dartmouth, 1854; 
merchant. 

Arthur Perkins Bonney, Amherst, de- 
gree of A. M., 1857; lawyer; State 
senator. 

Horatio Wood, Jr., Harvard, 1857. 
Franklin Nickerson, Harvard, 1860; 

M. D., 1863; physician. 
Edward Morton Tucke, Harvard, 1862; 

insurance business. 
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge, Harvard, 

1S63; lawyer; mayor of Lowell, 1880-1. 
Abner Wheeler Buttrick, Williams, 1865 ; 

M. D., Harvard, 1869; physician. 
John Henry Gilman, Harvard Medical 

School, 1863; physician. 



APPENDIX NO. SIX. 



119 



97 Charles Dana Palmer, Harvard, 1S6S; 

manufacturer. 
9S Charles Parker Spalding, Harvard, 1S70 ; 

M. D., Harvard, 1877. 
99 Thos. Nesmith, Harvard, 1S71; lawyer. 

100 Gustavus Aciolphus Gerry, Boston Den- 

tal School, 1874; dentist. 

101 Willard Brown, Harvard, 1S75 ; engaged 

in literature and teaching. 



102 Edward Augustus White Hammatt, 

Mass. Ins. of Technology, 1875. 

103 Joseph Phelps Gray, Massachusetts In- 

stitute of Technology, 1877. 
101 Frederic Parker Spalding, Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, 
1878. 

105 Gerard Bement, Harvard, 1880; enters 
Law School of Harvard in 18S0. 



106 Joseph Aaron Nesmith, Harvard, class 

of 1881. 

107 Edwards Chenev, Harvard, class of 

1882. 

10S Daniel Merchant Bichardson, Harvard, 

class of 1883. 
109 George Keed Bichardson, Harvard Law 

School, class of 1S83. 



IN COLLEGE. 



110 Arthur Lincoln Penhallow, Harvard, 

class of 1884. 

111 James Ernest Nesmith, Harvard Law 

School. 



Henry Bartlett, Arthur Heman Hosford, and 
Charles Herbert Mclntire are prepar- 
ing to enter Harvard College in 1881. 



Slumber Setoeu. 



OFFICERS OF THE CHANNING FRATERNITY. 

FRATERNITY ORGANIZED MAY 25, 1871. 



Presidents. 

Henrv Blanchard, Mav 25, 1871, to May 21, 
1873. 

Charles H. Coburn, Mav 21, 1873, to June 6, 
1875. 

J. L. Seward, June 6, 1875, to June 29, 
1879. 

J. F. Kimball, June 29, 1879, to June 20, 
1880. 

J. L. Seward (2d time;, June 20, 1880. 
Vice-Presidents. 

Walter Coburn, May 25, 1871, to May 21, 
1872. 

Fanny M. Talbot, May 25, 1871, to June 6, 
1875. 

Charles H. Coburn, May 21, 1872, to May 21, 
1873. 

Hamilton Burrage, May 21, 1873, to June 29, 
1879. 



Mrs. A. L. Richmond, June 6, 1875, to June 
29, 1879. 

J. F. Kimball, June 11, 1876, to June 29, 
1879. 

Mrs. George F. Richardson, June 21, 1876. 
William P. Bxazer, June 29, 1879. 
Thomas H. Elliott, June 29, 1879. 
Mrs. Augustus E. Spalding, June 29, 1879. 

Secretaries. 

Lawrence A. Lawson, May 25, 1871, to Mav 
21, 1872. 

Landon Adams, May 21, 1872, to June 11, 
1876. 

Walter U. Lawsoa, June 11, 1876. 

Treasurers. 

D. Henry Bradt, May 25, 1871, to May 25, 
1878 

E. K. Perley, May 25, 1S78. 



OFFICERS OF THE LADIES' CIRCLE. 



[COMPILED BY MISS 

The Unitarian Sewing Circle was organ- 
ized in 1862, for work in aid of the Sanitary 
Commission. In 1S65, the necessity for that 
work having ceased, garments were made 
for the poor of this city; and since that time 
have been distributed through the ministry - 
at-large. 

Since 1865, about 3,000 garments have been 
given away, and over $1,500 expended for 
materials and other supplies. 

In 1871, large supplies were sent to the 
sufferers by the Chicago lire, $138 being ex- 
pended for materials for that purpose. 

List of Presidents of the Unitarian Sewing 
Circle. 



Nov. 



Dec. 
Oct. 



1862, Mrs 

1863, " 

1864, " 

1865, " 

1866, " 

1867, " 

1868, " 

1869, " 

1870, " 

1871, " 

1872, " 

1873, " 



D. S. Richardson. 

Sidney Spalding. 

D. S. Richardson. 
C. E. Grinnell. 

Sidney Spalding. 
S. B. Eaton. 



Levi Sprague, 



H. A. WHITTIER.] 

Oct. 9, 1874, Mr 

" S, 1875", 

" 6, 1876, 

" 12, 1877, 

" 11, 1878, 

" 3, 1S79, 

" 15, 1880, 



Levi Sprague. 
Wm. P. Brazer. 



Samuel You in 



The following ladies have served as secre- 
tary and treasurer : 

1862, Mrs. P. Anderson. 

1863, " " 

1864, Miss Folsom. 

1865, Mrs. P. Anderson. 

1866, Miss M. J. Wright. 

1867, " 

1868, " 

1869, Mrs. P. Anderson. 
IS70, " " " 

1871, " " 

1872, " " 

1S73, Miss H. A. Whittier. 

1874, " " 

1875, " 

1876, " 
1S77, " 

1878, " 

1879, " 

1880, " 



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fiumfccr Mint. 

AXNTTERSAPlY OF MR. B AERY'S FIRST SERMON". 

May 9. 1880, was the fiftieth annirersary of the first sermon in Lowell, by the first 
pastor 'of the Unitarian Church, Mr. William Barry. The anniversary was observed by 
the present pastor, who preached a sermon appropriate to the occasion, and read to his 
congregation the following letter, received by him from Mr. Barry. 

No. 49S Belden Avenue, 
Rev. J. L. Seward : Chicago, April 30, 1S80. 

Dear Brother Seward, — It pains me to find your very kind letter, received now some 
eight days, still unanswered. Unhappily, it was" immediately followed by the sickness of 
mv dear wife and our voungest grandchild, both now relieved. 

I regret my inability to recall from memory the subject of my first discourse at Lowell, 
and most of mv manuscripts perished in the great <; Chicago Fire." Very grateful to me 
is it, that the occasion of it is to be rememberecT, and that I am inviled, after so many years, 
to participate in its commemoration. 

Your kind expressions and enumeration of dear friends, yet living, who first welcomed 
me to the "Hamilton Chapel," bring to me the "tender grace" of many a daylong gone, 
and the precious memory of unlading friendships, many of sainted ones long since 
glorified. That fifty years* of peaceful prosperity have passed to the church then founded, 
shows well the " goodly stones " which made its "strength and security. 

The church of 1830 was not only a young church, as an organization, but received 
largely its life and vigor from the young and energetic elements which composed it. How 
significant is this of the duty and privilege of every Christian brotherhood, to care for its 
young, early and late instilling into their receptive nature the earnest and formative prin- 
ciples of a' positive faith. Even the first Napoleon is credited with the saying, that it is 
only to positive religion that can be conceded the right to govern human society, and shape 
its destinies. How'shall this positive religion be secured and perpetuated, but by a faith- 
ful transmission to the teeming and waiting life which soon shall fill our places '. It is thus 
that, while " God buries the workmen, He carries on their work." Not only true is it, 
that the glory of children are the fathers: the glory, too, of the fathers should be their 
children. 

Would I could say more, especially of the great need in our times, that the true church 
of to-day should be a working church, "enlarging ever its charities and social ministrations, 
in the spirit of its Master, and of the inspired ages which followed him. Such a church 
will have its veins full of life-blood. For, as was said by Luther, "the true miracle of 
Christianitv is the creation of spirit-life in human souls." 

I regret I can add no more than my affectionate regards to the dear and well-remem- 
bered friends, spared, like myself, to take part in this commemorative review of a half- 
century of blessing: with heartfelt invocations in behalf of the riving and thriving church, 
in whose labors and fortunes they have so largely shared. The true and faithful friendship 
which has followed me all my days, since the severing of official ties, long years since, but 
deepens and exalts the Christian faith in the immortality of life and love. 

With every good wish and prayer that your earnest work, in the dear Lowell field of 
Christian labor, may be long continued and "successful, believe me, 
Trulv, vour friend and brother, 

William Barry. 

Jittntfccr £nt. 

UNITARIAN" CHURCH LN MIDDLESEX TILLAGE. 

An account of Unitarianism in Lowell would not be complete without an account of 
the Unitarian Church which once existed in Middlesex Tillage, and which was known as 
the North Congregational Church in Chelmsford. 

The first pastor, Rev. Hezekiah Packard, D.D., was installed Dec. 8, 1S30. The church 
was organized Dec. 4, 1S30, consisting of Hezekiah Packard, Eben Adams, William Adams, 
Joel Roper, Jesse Smith, Nathaniel Howard, Rebecca Warren, Martha Adams, Hannah 
Howard, Fanny Smith, Sarah P. Packard, Elizabeth Spalding, Mary Adams, Nancy 
Remme, and Nancy Roper. Abigail M. Peirce and Martha P. Adams were subsequently 
added. Eben Adams and Joel Roper were the deacons. 

Dr. Packard baptized Mrs. Nancy Remme, Mrs. Nancy Roper, and her children, 
Andrew, Mary Jane, Julia Ann, and Sarah Adeline, all Feb."l9, 1831, and Eliza, daughter 
of James Carter. June 2, 1834. 

Dr. Packard married ten couples, and attended about thirtv funerals. He left Lowell 
about Nov. 10, 1836. He was born in North Bridgewater, Mass.', Dec. 6, 1761: the youngest 
of ten children. Ke graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was afterwards an instructor in 
mathematics in that university : which conferred the degree of D.D. upon him in 1818. 
He was, later, a vice-president of Bowdoin College. He was ordained in Chelmsford 
Centre, in October, 1793, and was honorably dismissed, July 29, 180-2, when he went to 
Wiscasset, Me., where he remained as a pastor several years, "until he came to Middlesex. 
After leaving the latter church, he went to Wiscasset again, where he died, honored and 
respected, April 25, 1849, in his SSth year. 

After the resignation of Dr. Packard, the church in Middlesex languished. In 1839, 
Rev. Daniel S. Whitney, now postmaster at Southboro', preached for a time, and a Rev. 
Mr. Osgood followed him for a short time, after which the society disbanded, 



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OTHER APPENDIXES. 



CENTRALVILLE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 

March 18, 1849, a movement was started by lEtev. William Barry, of the Lee Street 
Church, in Centralville. Mr. Barry, who has written an admirable sketch of its history, 
says that it might, at first, have been called a ragged school. It was a Charity and Sunday 
School, combined. A "Ladies' Circle" in Centralville aided the work for along time. 
The movement was unsectarian, and was under the charge of Mr. Barry till he moved from 
Lowell, in 1854. He continued to be the sole trustee till 1861, when a board was appointed, 
consisting of Hon. J. A. Knowles, chairman, and Dea. John Morrison, E. B. Patch, F. H. 
Nourse, and W. G. Wise. 

Deacon Morrison was superintendent till his death, in 1876, after which H. M. Ordway, 
Esq., officiated till the school was closed. 

Speaking of Deacon Morrison, Mr. Barry, in his account of the school, in the records, 
says: " This brief record would be incomplete without adding that this school has, from 
the commencement, enjoyed, in its immediate direction and superintendence, the uninter- 
rupted and valuable services of Dea. John Morrison, of the Lee Street Church, who has 
been absent scarcely a single Sunday since its institution, and who has risen from a sick 
bed to stand at the post of duty." 

In 1877, it was thought best, in consideration of the fact that many new churches had 
ai'isen, into whose Sunday Schools the children were drawn, to bring the movement to an 
end. It had received and instructed many pupils, and will be remembered as one of the 
many useful and honored institutions of Lowell. 



BLEACHERY SUNDAY SCHOOL. 

One more unsectarian Sunday School deserves to be mentioned here, that future genera- 
tions may know of its existence "and usefulness; and we refer the reader to the following 
account of Rev. Horatio Wood : 

About 1860, a Sunday School was started near the Bleachery, and obtained the name of 
the Bleachery Sunday School. There was no Sunday School befoi-e in that section of the 
city. The teachers were of different denominations, and it was understood to be undenom- 
inational in spirit and plans. After about six years, one denomination sought to .control 
it in its own interest, but, opposed by a large majority of teachers, withdrew with those of 
its own name. In 1866, the majority, with the aid solicited of myself and prominent per- 
sons in sympathy with broad charity, erected a small chapel for their use and for other 
benevolent operations. They organized on an unsectarian basis. They would stand dis- 
connected from all denominational organizations.* The chapel completed was used for 
the Sunday School, for unsectarian preaching, for an evening school for the ignorant, and 
for a sewing school for poor children. The organization has to this time watchfully main- 
tained its broad characteristic. It has been of great benefit to the population in its vicinity. 
Two churches have, since 1860, been established in the near neighborhood, and evening 
schools have been adopted by the city; but in the chapel is still maintained the Sunday 
School, without any partisan, selfish object, dispensing spiritual blessings to those w ho 
resort to it. 



* They took the name of the Independent Union Mission. 



CORRECTIONS. 

Page 21 (last line) and Page 32 (foot-note) — First treasurer should be second treasurer. 
" 36 (last line of foot-note) — First librarian should be first president. 
" 97 (No. 2, Hinckley) — Eben Sanborn should be Ebenezer Sanborn. 
" 97 (No. 6, Hinckley) — Clara Kimball should be Clara B. 
" 97 (No. 52. Hinckley) —Eben Sanford should be Ebenezer Sanborn. 
" 99 (No. 4, Woodbury) — Ellen Lamson should be Ella. 
" 103 (No. 123) — John P. Roberts instead of John T. 
" 104 (No. 16, Grinnell) — John H. Crocker, should be John H. Cocker. 
" 105 (No. 3, between BlancUard and Seward) — J. Tyler Stevens was married by Rev. 
Mr. Hudson, of Ware. 

" 111 (After No. 193) — Add Aug.21, 1851, died Geo. Ransom, son of Ransom Reed, aged 9. 
" 112 (No. 32, Hinckley) — Daniel R. Kimball's age, 59, should be 53. 
" 114 (No. 35, Seward) — Josiah B. French's age should be 76. 

ADDITIONAL BAPTISM. 
Jan. 1, 1S81 — Duncan Forbes, son of Col. James Francis. 

ADDITIONAL MARRIAGES. 

Oct. 20, 1S80 — Herman Eckhardt, to Nellie A. Billings. 

Dec. 22, 1880 — Eben Stevens, to Carrie A. Fifield. 

Dec. 30, 1880 — Walter T. Moore, to Faustina M. Whithed. 

ADDITIONAL DEATHS. 

Nov. 27, 1880— Susan S. Penhallow, aged 73. 

Nov. 28, 18S0— Sarah S. B., wife of Jonathan Johnson, aged 58. 

Dec. 1, 1880 — Eliza Ellen, daughter of James Hopkins, aged 36. 

Dec. 3, 1880 —Lucy E. Penhallow, aged 75. 

Dec. 8, 1880 — Eliza B., widow of Samuel Garland, aged 80. 

Dec. 22, 1880 — Rachel, widow of James Kent, aged 79. (Pastor invited to assist at funeral.) 

ADDITIONAL GRADUATE. 
Joseph Giles Eaton, United States Naval Academy, 1867, Lieutenant in the Navy. 



